Cuts to Farm Animal Health Surveillance Could Risk New Diseases
UK - The Royal College of Pathologists has warned that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) plan to down-size its network of laboratories and reduce animal post-mortems puts at risk the health of livestock, including cattle, sheep and pigs, and means new and re-merging infections could be missed.
9 December 2013
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