Press Release: Scheme to apply EU wide controls on scrapie-affected farms launched

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Series Details No.286/04 (20.7.04)
Publication Date 20/07/2004
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The UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scottish Executive launched a scheme to apply compulsory disease measures to farms where a case of scrapie is reported and confirmed from 20 July 2004 onwards. These EU-wide measures are part of wider controls aimed at eradicating Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) from national flocks and herds.

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