BSE 'mad cow disease' case from Carmarthenshire

Farming officials have confirmed a case of "mad cow disease" identified in Wales was from a farm in Carmarthenshire.

The six-year-old cow was discovered to have BSE following routine tests carried out when an animal dies on a farm.

The cow had not entered the human food chain, authorities stressed.

Figures show more than 200 cases of BSE have been recorded in the UK since August 1996.

Details of the animal were revealed by the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in latest figures for BSE monitoring across Britain.

Two cases of BSE were last discovered in Wales in 2013, one in Powys and one in Gwynedd. Since 1996, there have been 35 identified BSE cases in Wales.

Speaking on Thursday, when the latest animal was confirmed, the Welsh deputy minister for farming and food Rebecca Evans said: "Identification of this case demonstrates that the controls we have in place are working well."