The European Parliament lashed out at the British government's performance in the FMD crisis

Lead: on Tuesday, the European Parliament lashed out at Britain's response to last year's foot-and-mouth epidemic, saying the British government needs to change its way of dealing with the disease In a report adopted by a majority of Member States, the European Parliament said that during the foot-and-mouth disease crisis last year, the UK authorities were not well organized, and there were bureaucratic problems, specifically when the outbreak occurred, their preparations were extremely poor The report said the British government's indecision about banning the movement of suspicious livestock further accelerated the spread of the epidemic The UK slaughtered a large number of livestock and made many rural areas quarantined rather than vaccinated "In 2001, foot-and-mouth disease spread at an unprecedented rate in Europe, especially in the UK, just like the scale of its outbreak," the report added However, Wolfgang kreissl Doerfler, the drafter of the report, said the FMD problem was not just a British one "We need a global strategy Foot-and-mouth disease is bound to break out in the future It's just a question of when and where We must be fully armed for the next outbreak " David Byrne, Commissioner for health and consumer affairs of the European Commission, said he had planned to implement several measures recommended in the report, including new rules on the transport and identification of sheep (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: