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...Animal products entering the UK from the EU will be waved through without checks if British ports are overwhelmed by new post-Brexit border controls, according to documents seen by the Financial Times....
...He also asked what preparations had been made at UK ports, airports and other important logistical points to minimise delays, and what assessments had been undertaken into the inflationary impact of the controls...
...It’s freezing outside in the Cornish winter, but I wait a while, trying to get my breathing under control....
...Three-quarters of new or emerging diseases that infect humans originate in animals, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...No vaccine exists to control its spread....
...when pathogens jump from an insect or animal to a human....
...The government said it had strict border controls in place to protect food and animal safety....
Research is finding ways to extend animal lifespans but regulators are still wary of treating ageing as a disease
...or dead animals infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu....
...Crab, which causes life-threatening illnesses in hospital patients, is classed as a priority concern by the WHO and an urgent threat by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Pluck said Cold Chain Federation members want physical inspections on plant and animal products to be delayed to October to give European operators more time to prepare....
...One concern is “reassortment”: when two flu viruses circulating in the same infected animal swap genetic material....
...Among the challenges revealed by the FT report is the high number of errors in traders’ entries to the two UK government computer systems that control customs and products of plant and animal origin....
...Implementation of the new border controls has been postponed five times since 2021, which has left EU exporters of animal and plant products free to send them to the UK without checks....
...Since January EU exporters have had to supply extra paperwork on the provenance of plant and animal products, known as Export Health Certificates (EHCs)....
...Beijing-based Joinn Laboratories, which acquired two lab animal suppliers in 2022, has warned about the impact of falling primate prices on its business....
...I discovered the borrowing epidemic as a Soviet schoolboy in Siberia: English and Russian stories often proved to be the same fables with different animals....
...Dogs are on leashes, animals in zoos....
...“Because organoids can be made from human cells, they can model aspects of human biology that cannot be captured in animal testing,” said Lancaster, group leader at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory...
...City types blame red tape for sapping animal spirits. The government obligingly ditched beefed-up governance legislation last week....
...“The climate crisis has numerous impacts on ecosystems, human health, animal health and food production, which also affect AMR,” according to a report titled “Bracing for Superbugs” published last year by...
...Looking at the data over time (see chart) it’s possible that the fall can be attributed to seasonal volatility, but trade groups are worried that it reflects the early impacts of the post-Brexit UK border controls...
...Industry bosses are aware they will ultimately face more regulation to control the growth in flying if they cannot win the argument on SAFs....
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