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Letters: "Strong biosecurity must be the norm, not just a reaction to crises"

Nigel Bennet, livestock area manager, Northern Europe, Roam Technology, reflects on the growing risk to UK agriculture due to inadequate biosecurity, weak border controls and a shrinking veterinary workforce

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Letters: "Strong biosecurity must be the norm, not just a reaction to crises"

The growing risk to UK agriculture due to inadequate biosecurity, weak border controls and a shrinking veterinary workforce, as highlighted at last week's (March 4) Efra Committee meeting, is deeply concerning....

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