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Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division III: Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle: Registered Files (AHT Series)
| Reference: | MAF 459 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division III: Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle: Registered Files (AHT Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains registered files (AHT Series) of the Animal Health Division III and includes the minutes and papers of the Consultative Panel on Badgers and Tuberculosis, and the Tuberculosis in Badgers and Cattle Co-ordinating Group. There are papers relating to the aftermath of the Zuckerman and Dunnet Reviews, as well as files relating to the outbreaks of Tuberculosis in badgers in the South West of England. Other files are concerned with Tuberculosis in deer and the making of Orders to ensure that this became a notifiable disease. |
| Date: | 1975-2008 |
| Related material: |
See also: For other papers of the Consultative Panel on Badgers, see FT 41/91-93: FT 41/91 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | AHT Series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division, 1955-1965 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division I, 1965-1987 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division II, 1965-1987 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division III, 1968-1987 |
| Physical description: | 299 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Custodial history: | The records were held by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) until 2001, when the department was renamed as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). |
| Accumulation dates: | Series opened in 1975 |
| Selection and destruction information: | These files were selected according to The National Archives Acquisition and Disposition Strategy 3.2.2 |
| Accruals: | This series is accruing |
| Publication note: |
For further information on administrative background and related series, see Sir John Winnifrith, The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (New Whitehall Series, No 11, 1962) and Loaves and Fishes, an illustrated history of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1889-1989 by Susan Foreman, HMSO Dd 290759 C60 3/89 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In 1938 the Diseases of Animals Division of MAFF became the Animal Health Division. In 1965 it was divided into two Divisions, in 1968 into three and finally in 1972 into four Divisions. In 1987 Animal Health Group was reorganised and Division III was renamed Animal Medicines Division. In 1975 a Consultative Panel on Badgers and Tuberculosis was established to bring together the views of experts and interested organisations and to keep the problem of bovine tuberculosis in badgers under review. In 1979 Lord Zuckerman, the President of the Royal Zoological Society, undertook an inquiry into gassing as a method of dealing with the problem. He reported in 1980. In 1984 Professor George Dunnet, a biologist at the University of Aberdeen, conducted a review into the problem of dealing with badgers infected with bovine tuberculosis insofar as it affected the eradication of the disease in cattle, taking into account changes in the field and research work since Lord Zuckerman's review. This report was published in 1986. |
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