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 follow on from the 19th-century series titled Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The act of 1884 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 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (today the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), when all other avenues of tuberculin prevention failed, to cull animals (including 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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References

  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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