§ 62. Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Defence, what research is being done for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on foot-and-mouth disease by the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton.
§ Mr. BoydenNone directly on behalf of that Department, but the Establishment has been making studies for and in collaboration with the Animal Virus Research Institute into the survival of the foot-and-mouth disease virus in the atmosphere, the meteorological conditions favourable to its transmission and into the possibility of its transmission to animals by way of infected milk tankers.