Meat plant foot-and-mouth 'link'
WALES - A Merthyr Tydfil meat processing plant is being investigated after it was linked to a Surrey farm where foot-and-mouth disease was found.
19 September 2007
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There are no signs of the disease at St Merryn Meat at Dowlais, which employs 1,000 workers.
The Welsh Assembly Government has stressed that the investigation is part of a routine tracing exercise.
No livestock is being allowed into the plant while the investigation continues.
On Monday night a third farm in Surrey was found to have foot-and-mouth in the latest outbreak of the disease.
Officials discovered cattle had been sent from the farm to St Merryn meat about a week ago, before movements across Britain were banned.
The cattle had been routinely inspected by vets on arrival at the plant, and after slaughter, and no sign of disease was found.
Source: BBCnews
