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Government lab blamed for FMD

11/03/2008

An independent review of last year’s foot-and-mouth outbreak has criticised the laboratory at the source of the disease saying it as “shabby and dilapidated”.The report’s author, Dr Iain Anderson, said the FMD virus should never have escaped the government-run Pirbright complex in Surrey.He said poor regulation by the government was one of the...

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