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FARMERS WEEKLY INTERACTIVE NEWSLETTER
23 July 2002
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Welcome to the FWi newsletter.
AN OFFICIAL inquiry into the foot-and-mouth epidemic has delivered a damning
indictment of the government's handling of the crisis.
Ministers did not have an adequate contingency plan to tackle the outbreak,
claims the "Lessons Learned" inquiry, headed by former Downing Street
advisor Iain Anderson.
The Ministry of Agriculture was too slow to act and when the crisis
escalated it was gripped by panic, says the report which was published on
Monday (22 July) afternoon.
"The 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak was an emergency that became a crisis, and
in some parts of the country it became a disaster," Dr Anderson told
reporters.
For further details on this and other stories follow the links below.
Kind regards,
Johann Tasker
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Scots welcome Anderson report
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