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Article: The EU's Animal Health Policy Strategy.
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- January 16, 2007
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On 7 November 2006, the Food Chain Evaluation Consortium ("FCEC") presented the conclusions and recommendations of its evaluation of the Community's Animal Health Policy ("CAHP") at a conference in Brussels. The European Commission intends to publish a Communication setting out a new CAHP Strategy for 2007 to 2013, based on the FCEC's report and the conference feedback, in mid-2007.
BACKGROUND
Animal health is an increasingly important issue in the EU. As well as the financial costs of animal disease outbreaks, there is growing concern about ethical issues related to the mass slaughter of animals when controlling an outbreak and the potential impact of ...