Diseases of Animals Act

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The Diseases of Animals Acts are a series of acts of Parliament of the UK to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination. They follows on from the 19th-century series notation Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The act of 1884[ which? ] was designed to combat "heavy losses" due to cattle diseases such as rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). [1]

The series was consolidated by the Diseases of Animals Act 1950. [2] The act of 1950 authorised the Ministry[ clarification needed ], when all other avenues of tuberculin prevention failed, to cull badgers, [3] and to halt the transportation of cattle from herds prone to FMD. [4] Apparently the definition of poultry needed to be extended in 1953, to include birds of the species psittaciformes, doves, peafowl and swans. [5] The series was stopped and continued by the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22). [6] [7]

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  1. ↑ Rushton, Jonathan (2009). The Economics of Animal Health and Production. ISBN   9781845932442.
  2. ↑ "Diseases of Animals Act 1950: consolidation of Diseases of Animals Acts 1894-1937". The National Archives.
  3. ↑ Zuckerman, Baron Solly Zuckerman; Walker, Peter Edward (3 November 1980). Badgers, cattle and tuberculosis: Report to the Right Honourable Peter Walker, MBE, MP. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN   9780112403555.
  4. ↑ Reynolds, L. A.; Wellcome Trust (London, England). Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (8 December 2003). Foot and mouth disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. ISBN   9780854840960.
  5. ↑ "The Diseases of Animals (Extension of Definition of Poultry) Order 1953". legislation.gov.uk.
  6. ↑ Jukes, D. J. (11 September 2013). Food Legislation of the UK: A Concise Guide. Elsevier. ISBN   9781483182636.
  7. ↑ Boden, Edward; Andrews, Anthony (26 March 2015). Black's Veterinary Dictionary. Bloomsbury. ISBN   9781408149553.


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