When I spoke to the egg heads at Maf about turtles years ago they were afraid of salmonella. When I suggested they should therefore eradicate shhep, goats sparrows, rats and mice etc (as well as humans) they realy didn't seem very interested. Are there any real disease problems with tortoises? The law on new organisms is pretty tough and would be very expensive to go through, so as Navarre suggests, getting them approved as existing would be a lot easier if possible.