The Government has published its response to the Anderson report on the 2007 Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak. It makes clear the continuing importance of the work of the Institute for Animal Health in delivering world class research to underpin the UK’s livestock industries and food security.

According to the BBSRC press release the BBSRC is committed to establishing a new national research facility, as recommended by Sir Iain Anderson, that takes forward the work of IAH and which provides the UK with a strategic research capability to defend against diseases such as Foot-and-Mouth, Bluetongue and emerging diseases that pose serious new threats to livestock health and the security of the UK food chain.

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