Keith Meldrum

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Keith Meldrum
Born
Keith Cameron Meldrum

1937 (age 8687)
Nationality United Kingdom

Keith Cameron Meldrum CB, MRCVS, DVSM, HonFRSH (born 1937) was the United Kingdom's Chief Veterinary Officer from June 1988 to April 1997. [1]

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Biography

After two years in general practice as a veterinary surgeon, he joined the State Veterinary Service, as a veterinary officer, and worked there during the 1967 foot-and-mouth outbreak. [2] His tenure as CVO coincided with the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, [2] to which he led the government's response. [3]

A lifetime member of the British Veterinary Association, he sits on the council of their Central Veterinary Society division. [3] He was made a Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1995 New Year Honours. [2] [4] He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Society for Public Health (HonFRSH), a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS), and holds a Diploma in Veterinary State Medicine (DVSM). [2]

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References

  1. "Keith Meldrum: Official vet". BBC News . Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2003). Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 outbreak and its aftermath. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-096-0. OL   11612220M. Wikidata   Q29581674.
  3. 1 2 "Keith Meldrum". Central Veterinary Society. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  4. "No. 53893". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1994. pp. 1–32.