Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division III: Control...
Catalogue reference: MAF 459
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MAF 459
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...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 459
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division III: Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle: Registered Files (AHT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975-2008
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other papers of the Consultative Panel on Badgers, see FT 41/91-93: FT 41/91
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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AHT Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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299 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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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).
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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Series opened in 1975
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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This series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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These files were selected according to The National Archives Acquisition and Disposition Strategy 3.2.2
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16530/
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Within the department: MAF
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division III: Control of Tuberculosis in Cattle: Registered Files (AHT Series)