Pigs: Bovine Tuberculosis
(asked on 7th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many TB tests on pigs have returned a negative result after a primary inconclusive test result in England in each year since 2013.
We have interpreted the term ‘inconclusive test result’ as suspect pig slaughterhouse cases, tested in abattoirs when TB-like lesions are identified. For these ‘inconclusive’ cases, post mortem samples have been taken and processed for bacteriological isolation of Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis).
This information is available under the periodical statistics on Gov.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/other-tb-statistics
England | Year | Total individual animal specimens submitted for post-mortem examination | of which:- animal specimens where culturing was not attempted | Animal specimens which underwent laboratory culture | of which:- animal specimens with culture results pending at end of period | of which:- animal specimens that were culture positive for M. Bovis |
| 2011 | 272 | 0 | 272 | 0 | 36 |
| 2012 | 191 | 3 | 188 | 0 | 20 |
| 2013 | 77 | 3 | 74 | 0 | 31 |
| 2014 | 57 | 1 | 56 | 0 | 14 |
| 2015 | 67 | 2 | 65 | 0 | 23 |
| 2016 | 117 | 13 | 104 | 0 | 23 |
| 2017 | 111 | 4 | 107 | 0 | 19 |
| Q1-Q3 2018 | 101 | 4 | 97 | 18 | 17 |