FMD 2001 outbreak - Inquiries
Three independent inquiries into the lessons to be learned from the foot and mouth disease outbreak of 2001 and a policy commission on the future of farming and the countryside were announced by the Government on 9 August 2001.
The independent inquiries which reported 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;
- Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, as pledged by the Government, to be chaired by Sir Don Curry.
6 November 2002 - Government response to the Reports of the Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiries (Link to the TSO website).
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