Progress is being made on a compensation arrangement for the small number of farmers who received a false negative BVD result with a PI case or cases arising as a result.

A code of practice is being developed through AHI at the request of IFA animal health chairman Bert Stewart.

Farmers have spent almost €50m in BVD testing

It’s proposed that the approved testing laboratories will be invited to contribute to a fund on the basis of their share of testing.

The firm with the biggest share of the market, Enfer, is understood to be positively disposed to the proposal.

Some 80 such false results have arisen in the 11m tests carried out since testing started in 2013. “The fund must offset any losses experienced by farmers in this situation,” Stewart said.

“Farmers have spent almost €50m in BVD testing since the programme commenced and therefore expect all designated laboratories to support the code of practice.”

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