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Livestock movements, identification and tracing: movements - Cost Benefit Analysis phase 1

On 25 February 2003 the Government published the emerging findings from the risk assessment and cost benefit analysis of animal movement standstills. The studies were commissioned in response to the recommendations made in July 2002 by the Lessons Learned and Royal Society Inquiries and have been carried out for Defra by Risk Solutions and the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit (VEERU) at the University of Reading.

FMD epidemiological modelling project report - the silent spread, 25 February 2003

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Page published: February 12, 2007

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