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...Paul Merritt, a Michelin-starred chef and BBC TV food presenter, has confirmed that he was often offered caviar at half the normal price by suspicious characters. "Three or four people would ring up and say, 'I've got some caviar. Would you like some now?' -just like you would if you had someone calling up and saying, 'I've got a few dodgy stereos'," said Merritt...
...News of the second outbreak stoked fears among local farmers over a repeat of the FMD outbreak of 2001, which devastated British farming and hit tourism, costing the economy an estimated $17 billion. Lawrence Mathews, the owner of the land where the second outbreak emerged told BBC radio: "We were starting to think that maybe this virus has been contained and maybe we'd get back to normality within the next few weeks...
...That is certainly true, and in a 2002 government review, it was the Institute for Animal Health, not Merial, which drew criticism for the standard of some of its laboratories. According to the BBC, the review said standards at some institute facilities were "not commensurate with what might be expected for work with infectious diseases." The report also raised questions about the loss of key skills at the Pirbright laboratory as senior personnel left and were not replaced...
...Earlier this year, the head of the laboratory, Professor Martin Shirley, told a Parliament select committee he was trying to run a Rolls Royce service, but was being "funded at the level of a Ford Cortina." (On Monday, he told the BBC that he stood by his comments but refused to comment any further...
...Cameron has postponed planned holidays to keep abreast of the situation and Brown returned after one day of his scheduled break in southwestern England to direct the fight against FMD. In an interview with the BBC the Prime Minister promised "we are doing everything in our power to look at the scientific evidence and to get to the bottom of what has happened and then to eradicate this disease...