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Welcome
to the home page of the lessons learned Inquiry into the Foot
and Mouth Disease outbreak of 2001
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The Inquiry has now published its report. It is available as a
pdf document or can be ordered from The Stationery Office at
http://www.tso.co.uk/bookshop
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Evidence submitted to the Inquiry and published on a cd-rom annex to the report is also available on this
website .
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The Government on 9 August 2001
announced three independent inquiries into the lessons to be learned
from the foot and mouth disease outbreak of 2001 and the future of
farming and the countryside.
The independent inquiries which will
report to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, Margaret Beckett are: |
- Inquiry into the lessons to be learned from the foot and mouth
disease outbreak of 2001
and the way the Government should
handle any future major animal disease outbreak, to be chaired by Dr
Iain Anderson;
Scientific review by the Royal Society
of questions
relating to the transmission, prevention and control of epidemic
outbreaks of infectious disease in livestock, committee to be chaired
by Sir Brian Follett FRS;
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/inquiry/index.html
Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food,
(now reported)
http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/farming
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Terms of reference: To make
recommendations for the way in which the Government should handle any
future major animal disease outbreak, in the light of the lessons
identified from the handling of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak
in Great Britain.
The recommendations will be addressed to the Prime
Minister and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs, and to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.
Timetable:
The Inquiry intends to complete its programme
of work within 6 months and expects to submit its final report by mid-2002. If there are important emerging recommendations that
should be passed to the Government sooner, the Inquiry will publish
interim findings.
Chairman: Dr Iain
Anderson CBE will
conduct the
Inquiry.
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