Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 July 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation

11:30 am

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

There is a technical issue in terms of using the same tissue sample for both tests. At the moment the tests interfere with each other but we are working through the technical aspects to ensure that we resolve the matter as quickly as possible. At farm level it makes a huge difference to just take one sample for use in both tests. Resolving the matter is work in progress.