EU UNVEILS EURO 275 MILLION PROGRAMME TO FIGHT ANIMAL DISEASES
December 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has earmarked Euro 275 million in its 2010 budgets to eradicate, control and monitor common diseases, giving priority to those which could be transmitted to humans who eat or come in contact with contaminated meat.
Brussels will fund 224 programmes throughout the European Union (EU) next year, of which 76 and more than half the budget (Euro 174 million) will focus on 10 important diseases such as bovine tuberculosis (TB) and bluetongue.
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