BSE: Glossary
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ABPO - Animal By-Products Order
AHDO - Animal Health Divisional
Office
AHO - Animal Health Office
BAB - Born After the (feed) Ban
BARIMO - Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement)
Order 1995
BAS - Beef Assurance Scheme
BBSRC - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
BCMS - British Cattle Movement Service
BIP - Border Inspection Post
BSE - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BVA - British Veterinary Association
CBRD - Cattle Birth Record Document
CCD - Cattle Control Document
CCR - Consultative Committee on Research
CHS - Certified Herd scheme
CID - Cattle Identification Document
CII - Cattle Identification Inspection
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
CNS - Central Nervous System
COPA - Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the European Economic
Community
CPAS - Calf Processing Aid Scheme
CSF - Cerebro-Spinal Fluid
CTS - Cattle Tracing System
CVL - Central Veterinary Laboratory
CWD - Chronic Wasting Disease
DARD - Department of Agriculture
and Rural Development - Northern Ireland
DBES - Date based export scheme
DEFRA - Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DH/DoH - Department of Health
DTI - Department of Trade and Industry
DVM - Divisional Veterinary Manager
DVO - Divisional Veterinary Officer
EBL - Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
EC - European Community
ECHS - Export Certified Herd Scheme
ECJ - European Court of Justice
EEC - Committee of Agricultural Organizations in the European Economic
Community
ELISA- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
EU - European Union
FSA - Food Standards Agency
FSE - Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy
FVO - Food and Veterinary Office
GATT - General Agreement on Trade
and Tarriffs
GB - Great Britain
GSS - Gertsmann-Staussler-Scheinker syndrome
HMG - Her Majesty's Government
IAH - Institute for Animal Health
IBEA - Intervention Board Executive Agency
IMP - Indicative Market Price
LASSA - Licensed animal slaughter
and salvage association
LVI - Local Veterinary Inspector
MAFF - Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food
MBM - Meat and Bone Meal
MEP - Member of the European Parliament
MHS - Meat Hygiene Service
MLC - Meat and Livestock Commission
MMBM - Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal
MRC - Medical Research Council
MRM - Mechanically Recovered Meat
NAWAD - National Assembly for Wales
Agriculture Department
NFU - National Farmers Union
NI - Northern Ireland
NSP - National Scrapie Plan
OCDS - Older Cattle Disposal
Scheme
OIE - Office Internationale des Epizooties
OP - Organophosphates
OPSI - Office of Public Service Information
OTMS - Over Thirty Months Slaughter scheme
RBSE - Reported Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy cases
RDSE - Research and Development on Spongiform Encephalopathy
RIA - Regulatory Impact Assessment
RL - Regional Laboratory
RSC - Regional Service Centre
RSCRAP - Reported Scrapie cases
SAF - Scrapie Associated Fibrils
SBM - Specified Bovine Material
SBO - Specified Bovine Offal
SCS - Selective Cull Scheme
SE - Spongiform Encephalopathy
SEAC - Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee
SEERAD - Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
SERAD - Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department
SI - Statutory Instrument
SR - Statutory Regulate
SRM - Specified Risk Material
SSC - Scientific Steering Commitee
SVC - Standing Veterinary Committee
SVS - State Veterinary Service
TB - Tuberculosis
TCI - Temporary Committee of Inquiry
TME - Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
TSE - Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
UK - United Kingdom
UKASTA - United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association
UKRA - United Kingdom Renderers Association
vCJD - variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob
Disease
VFS - Veterinary Field Service
VIC - Veterinary Investigation centre
VLA - Veterinary Laboratories Agency
WHO - World
Health Organisation
WTO - World Trade Organisation
Page last reveiwed:
September 10, 2006
Page last modified: October 3, 2006