Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=950612003

The Scottish Executive is to stage a two-day simulation exercise of a foot-and-mouth outbreak on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, involving the rural development department’s Pentland House headquarters in Edinburgh and its Perth area office, as well as local authorities, police, environmental agencies, farmers and the media.

The exercise will test improved FMD contingency arrangements and, the Executive hopes, show how well lessons were learned during the 2001 FMD epidemic.