Correspondence and papers regarding BSE and Scrapie

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 188/9/7/1
• Dates of Creation:Oct 2001-Jan 2003
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  30 pages

• Scope and Content

  Scrapie is a fatal degenerative disease which affects sheep and goats. Includes correspondence between Ferguson-Smith, Dr Stephen Dealler, Mrs Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Stephen Farrar, and Elliot Morley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State concerning Government policy on BSE, an article on scrapie provisions published in the "Farmers Guardian," and concerns over the transmission of BSE to national sheep flock.

• Other Finding Aids

  See also University of Glasgow Collections

• Personal Names

  Dealler, Stephen, fl 2000

  Farrar, Stephen, fl 2000

• Corporate Names

  Great Britain and Northern Ireland Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,