Report scathing of DEFRA’s handling of foot and mouth crisis
21/06/2002
Farmers in the UK were breathing a sigh of relief today after initial tests for foot-and-mouth disease on a suspect pig proved negative. However, the news coincided with the publication of a report that showed last year's crisis cost the British taxpayer over £8 billion ($12 billion). Suspicions were also mounting that the alert - the first since September 2001 - was timed to deflect attention away from the report.
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