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23/08/2007
EU Ban On British Meat To Be Lifted
The export ban on British meat and animal products is to be lifted on Saturday.
While the ban will be lifted, a 10km zone ban will remain in place around the Surrey sites at the centre of the original source of the outbreak.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the lifting of the ban imposed following the recent foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Speaking to reporters in Downing Street, Mr Brown said that exclusion zones set up around infected farms in Surrey would be removed and that the movement of animals such as cattle and pigs would be allowed, with some restrictions, from midnight tonight.
This morning the EU announced that meat and animal exports from Britain would be allowed with effect from Saturday, August 25.
Mr Brown promised that farmers would be "properly compensated" for losses incurred as a result of the infection and that the Government planned to start a national advertising campaign this weekend to encourage tourists to visit the countryside.
He said: "We are determined not just to learn the lessons but to get back to normal as quickly as possible and I do thank the rural communities and the farming communities of this country for their patience and their forbearance.
"It is by acting quickly and by acting decisively, once we knew of the incidence of foot and mouth, that we we've been able to bring it under control so quickly and that's thanks to the cooperation of all the farming communities in this country."
The Prime Minister also praised the work of Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds and the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs in dealing quickly with the outbreak that was first detected on August 3.
(SP/KMcA)
While the ban will be lifted, a 10km zone ban will remain in place around the Surrey sites at the centre of the original source of the outbreak.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the lifting of the ban imposed following the recent foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Speaking to reporters in Downing Street, Mr Brown said that exclusion zones set up around infected farms in Surrey would be removed and that the movement of animals such as cattle and pigs would be allowed, with some restrictions, from midnight tonight.
This morning the EU announced that meat and animal exports from Britain would be allowed with effect from Saturday, August 25.
Mr Brown promised that farmers would be "properly compensated" for losses incurred as a result of the infection and that the Government planned to start a national advertising campaign this weekend to encourage tourists to visit the countryside.
He said: "We are determined not just to learn the lessons but to get back to normal as quickly as possible and I do thank the rural communities and the farming communities of this country for their patience and their forbearance.
"It is by acting quickly and by acting decisively, once we knew of the incidence of foot and mouth, that we we've been able to bring it under control so quickly and that's thanks to the cooperation of all the farming communities in this country."
The Prime Minister also praised the work of Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds and the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs in dealing quickly with the outbreak that was first detected on August 3.
(SP/KMcA)
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