HL Deb 27 October 2004 vol 665 cc133-4WA
Baroness Byford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

When scrapie epidemiology was last peer reviewed. [HL4537]

Lord Whitty

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has a policy of reviewing its research programmes every four to five years. The last review of the entire research programme on transmissible spongi form encephalopathies (TSEs) was carried out in December 2000. An additional review of Defrafunded sheep TSE research, including projects on scrapie epidemiology, was carried out in December 2001.

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