New Developments

New developments concerning Foot and Mouth Disease are covered on this site by a series of links to documents and other websites.

http://www.fmd-lessonslearned.org.uk/index.htm
An inquiry conducted by The National Foot and Mouth Group concerning the 2001 outbreaks in the UK.

The discussions and developments in 2001 and 2002 resulted in significant progress in the European regulations on the strategy for Foot and Mouth Disease control.

A new policy on Foot and Mouth Disease control was accepted by the European Ministers of agriculture on 12/06/2003.

International Conference on Control and Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease, Brussels 12-13 December 2001 (36Kb)
The final report of the conference, which looked at the present situation of Foot and Mouth Disease worldwide, the prevention and control of Foot and mouth Disease and the socio-economic consequences thereof.
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Speech (37Kb)
On September 12, 2002, David Byrne, European Commissioner for Animal Health and Food Safety, gave a speech for the Temporal EU FMD Committee. Emergency vaccination will move from a last resort to a first choice. Possibly emergency vaccination will become compulsory under certain circumstances. 
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