Scrapie Rules for Scotland - Introduced!

Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
Sorry! I have changed the url to the one below which seems to work! I noticed that it was updated 13/05/02 and 'matches' the TSE legislation in Scotland.

Scrapie Rules for Scotland have now been introduced – see them here:

http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2002/20020843.htm
                                        
                                
* This message has been edited by Farmtalking on 28 May 2002 11:35:57 *
                                

Originally from: Joyce
                        
What a great pity they haven't taken some notice of Mark Purdey's research before spending such a vast amount of OUR money! Joyce

Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
I have just copied the following message from Warmwell whih may also be helpful!

" the Scottish equivalent of SI843 is going through.
"The Scottish legislation is found on: www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/environment/TSE_reg2002_letter.pdf
There is a fault when you go from the letter to the SI--you need to correct the spelling of environment at the bottom of your screen, then press GO. (Perhaps they don't want us to read it.) Page 11 "a TSE susceptible animal means any animal, whether farmed or not, capable of being affected by a TSE' 13–19 TSE monitoring, 40–45 Powers of inspectors ( not necessarily vets) 79 and 99 Offences, 103–108 compensation and
123–128 cattle offspring slaughter and compensation."
....So there we are. TSE "susceptible" animals are in grave peril – in spite of the fact that it looks more and more unlikely that TSEs are caused by an infectious agent such as the unproven "infectious rogue prion". If they are not – in spite of the blind reliance of the global authorities on thinking that BSE/TSE/CJD can be "caught" from other animals – then billions of pounds, hours of legislation and tons of paper are being expended for no good reason. The National Scrapie Plan is founded on a myth and the thousands of healthy animals, now likely to be killed, are of no risk to human health at all. Why are these measures, so irresponsibly failing to take available scientific research into account, being rushed through?" Jane