Coronavirus: Mink

(asked on 9th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect on human health of mink fur farming since the outbreak of a coronavirus variant linked to Danish mink farms.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th January 2021

Public Health England has made no assessment of the effect on human health of mink fur farming since the outbreak of a coronavirus variant linked to Danish mink farms.

Fur farming has been banned in the United Kingdom since 2000.

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