REMEMBER FOOT AND MOUTH?

When you’ve just got rumbled mishandling a food-cancer scare in the run up to the election, the last thing you need is a new outbreak of foot and mouth, but that’s the latest threat to hit Blair’s bid for immortality:

”Britain is at serious risk of a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease or bird flu because of dangerously lax controls on farms and abattoirs, an official report has warned.
Experts from the European Commission claim ministers have failed to learn the lessons of the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth, and are failing to properly monitor farms, slaughterhouses and animals to stop the spread of serious disease, such as the bird flu devastating South-east Asia.

In a damning report released last week, the commission claimed that many small farms were not properly registered and that at one major abattoir it found "serious concerns" that the vets were too overworked to carry out adequate health and hygiene checks.”

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