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Monday, 22 July, 2002, 16:07 GMT 17:07 UK
At-a-glance: The Anderson inquiry
Nick Brown
Former agriculture minister Nick Brown was criticised
The inquiry into the UK Government's handling of the foot-and-mouth epidemic is published on Monday.

This report into last year's outbreak is the last of three ordered after the epidemic which is thought to have cost the nation £8bn.

Here are the key findings in the Lessons To Be Learned report:

  • The report highlights ministers' failure to prepare for such an outbreak

  • It stresses the importance of contingency plans for the future in case of another outbreak

  • The military should be contacted at "the earliest appropriate, opportunity" to provide advice and support when an outbreak occurs

  • A comprehensive animal health strategy needs to be developed

  • Vaccination should form part of a future strategy for containing the disease and that should be vaccination to live rather than vaccination to kill

  • Former agriculture minister Nick Brown lost the trust of the public by saying the disease was under control when it was not

  • A national ban on livestock movements should apply when the first foot-and-mouth case was confirmed but the report acknowledged this would not necessarily have prevented the epidemic

  • The livestock industry should promote good practice and tackle poor standards of farming

  • Burning animals on mass pyres should not be used as a strategy in future for disposing of slaughtered cattle



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