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ThePigSite Foot and Mouth Disease News
Latest Foot and Mouth Disease News
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Sabotage At Pirbright Linked To Religious Extremists UK - "Sabotage is emerging as the most likely cause of the recent FMD outbreak in England". This is according to former NZ Animal Health Committee observer and London-based independent researcher Don Stewart.
IFA Challanges Minister Over Brazilian Beef Imports IRELAND - IFA President Padraig Walshe said today IFA and the farming community strongly support the essential biosecurity measures taken by the Minister for Agriculture to guard against the outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease in Britain spreading to ...
Ministers Want Private Lab To Be Blamed For Leak UK - Ministers are frustrated by the failure of the Health and Safety Executive to assert that a private laboratory at Pirbright, Surrey, was to blame for the leak which led to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Scots Press Brussels For Early End To Export Ban SCOTLAND - Despite the general winding down of the foot-and-mouth panic, which has revolved around a handful of farms in Surrey, exports of beef and lamb from Scotland are unlikely to resume for several weeks.
Payouts May Be Limited To Infected Stock UK - Farmers and other businesses which have been financially affected by the foot and mouth outbreaks were yesterday finding out whether they could sue the government or the drugs firm Merial over the millions of pounds a day they claim to have lost...
Ulster Gets FMD-Free Status, But Concern Grows For Some Markets IRELAND - Northern Ireland will be able to distance itself from the rest of Britain with new export documentation detailing its foot-and-mouth free status.
Grave Concern Takes Root In The Wake Of HSE Report UK - Early indications from a Health and Safety Executive report that the Foot and Mouth Disease Virus could have originated from the Animal Health Institute or the Merial site has added to the anger and frustration already felt by farmers in Wales. ...
Abottoirs Open At Midnight SCOTLAND - Cross-border movements of animals being transferred direct to abattoirs under strict controls will resume from midnight tonight.
Don't Hold Your Breath For The EU To Lift Its Ban BRUSSELS - Yesterday a committee of veterinarians met in Brussels to discuss the EU's ban on the export of fresh British meat and livestock. Hours later they came to the conclusion that the foot and mouth outbreak had not been stabilised. The ban would...
Brazil Has Foot And Mouth Too BRAZIL - Furious farmers last night called for a ban on beef imports from countries with foot and mouth disease while British livestock movement remains frozen.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Animal movement ban relaxation welcomed UK - The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has welcomed the announcement that from midnight tonight (Wednesday 8 August), movement to slaughter and the disposal of fallen stock can begin under strict biosecurity controls outside the protection...
Third farm under suspicion, animals to be culled UK - The government has announced that the ban on livestock movement brought in following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey is to be eased for the majority of the UK from midnight.
Merial acknowledge the interim report issued by the HSE today. UK - Merial fully support the investigation and will continue to co-operate and provide complete access to our centre to enable these investigations to continue.
Initial Report On Potential Biosecurity Breaches At Pirbright UK - The first report yet examining biosecurity practises at the Pirbrigh site was released by the Health and Safety Executive earlier today. Suspisions were raised when it became apparent that the Pirbrigh facility is mere kilometers away from the outbreaks....
Industry Counts The Cost Of F And M UK - A ban on all livestock movements - essential to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease - has added huge costs to the region's farming and food businesses, writes rural affairs editor Michael Pollitt.
Merial Denies Biosecurity Breach UK - Pharmaceutical firm Merial has repeated its claim that it is not responsible for the recent foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey.
Lab Says "No Evidence" It Is Behind UK Cattle Disease LONDON - A research laboratory at the centre of an investigation into an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in southern Britain said on Wednesday it had complete confidence in its biosecurity measures.
FMD Report Indicates Strong Link With Lab UK - A second report is due today on Britain's foot and mouth outbreak, after an initial probe suggested human activity at a laboratory as the most likely cause.
Movement To Slaughter Welcomed UK - The announcement that farmers in England can start to send cattle and sheep to slaughter has been welcomed by the English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX).
NFU considering FMD legal action UK - The NFU is considering legal action on behalf of farmers throughout the country who have been hit by the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
NBA urges industry to uphold FMD movement controls UK - The National Beef Association has told its members that the most important contribution they can make to minimise the impact of the latest FMD outbreak is to strictly uphold the total restriction on all livestock movement until Defra is sure it has...
FMD outbreak in Surrey 50 years ago set legal precedent, foreshadowed current problems UK - If the present outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey is due to the escape of a virus being used at the experimental facility in Pirbright (either the commercial one or that of the ministry) then this is a considerable case of déjà vu. We have...
British Outbreak May Be Linked to Human Action UK - An investigation, ordered by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on Tuesday concluded that the spread of foot-and-mouth disease among livestock at two farms in southern England was probably caused by human movement from nearby laboratory facilities that...
Farmers' relief as Scots meat production given go-ahead UK - MEAT production will begin again in Scotland today - while England remains in a state of total foot-and-mouth lockdown.
'No further measures needed to stop spread of outbreak' - Coughlan IRELAND - No further preventative measures are required to stop the spread into Ireland of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) despite confirmation of a second case in the UK, Agriculture Minister Mary Coughlan said yesterday.
