The documentary, entitled 鈥楤rian May: The badgers, the farmers and me鈥�, first broadcast on BBC2 on Friday 23 August.
皇家华人had previously raised serious concerns ahead of the programme鈥檚 broadcast.
This resulted in some clarifications being made via the insertion of an end screen to outline the most recent TB herd breakdowns at Gatcombe.
It is the NFU鈥檚 view that these breakdowns undermine the premise of the programme that it helped Gatcombe become consistently TB Free, and the NFU remains concerned, notwithstanding the insertion of the end screen.
Programme fundamentally flawed
NFU Director General Terry Jones said: 鈥淒espite making extensive efforts to have corrections and clarifications made to the programme to ensure all of the science and evidence on TB, and infection links between badgers and cattle, were included and given due time, this did not happen in either the documentary itself or the surrounding media interviews.
鈥淲e have written to the BBC to state our belief that the programme was fundamentally flawed, lacked impartiality, and breached the BBC鈥檚 own editorial guidelines.鈥�
The programme suggested bTB is mainly spread from cattle to cattle via slurry and that badgers are not a 鈥榮ignificant factor in the spread of the disease鈥�, despite the volume of evidence to the contrary, which, in the NFU鈥檚 view, was not properly examined.
