AFRC |
Agricultural and Food Research Council (became the BBSRC in 1994) |
Ante-mortem |
Before slaughter |
BBSRC |
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
BSE |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
BSEP |
Biology of the Spongiform Encephalopathies Programme |
CAP |
The EU's Common Agricultural Policy |
Cash terms (or prices) |
Levels of expenditure have not been adjusted for inflation |
CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
CJDSU |
The national Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit |
Clean cattle |
Cattle which have not been used for breeding |
COREPER |
Committee of Permanent Representatives to the European Union |
CPMP |
The EU's Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products |
CSM |
Committee on Safety of Medicines |
CVL |
Central Veterinary Laboratory |
CVMP |
The EU's Committee for Veterinary Medicinal Products |
Dam |
The female parent of an animal |
DANI |
Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland |
DH (or DoH) |
Department of Health |
DTI |
Department of Trade and Industry |
EC |
European Community (see EU) |
ECU |
European Currency Unit |
EHO |
Environmental Health Officer |
Epizootic |
Of a disease: temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population |
Excipient |
An inactive substance that serves as the vehicle or medium for a drug or other active substance |
EU |
European Union, which came into existence on 1 November 1993 as a result of the Maastricht Treaty. The EU incorporated but did not replace the European Community. Here the term EU is generally used for consistency's sake (even if sometimes chronologically incorrect), except where specific reference is made to the functions conferred by the European Community Treaty or to its legal effect |
GAFTA |
Grain and Feed Trade Association |
GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
Greaves |
A high-protein solid which is left following the extraction of tallow from animal by-products during the rendering process. With further processing this becomes meat and bone meal (MBM) |
Human SBO ban |
The ban on SBO for human consumption |
IAH |
Institute for Animal Health |
MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
MBM |
Meat and bone meal |
MCA |
Medicines Control Agency |
MHS |
Meat Hygiene Service |
MLC |
Meat and Livestock Commission |
MRC |
Medical Research Council |
MRM |
Mechanically recovered meat |
NHS |
National Health Service |
NPU |
Neuropathogenesis Unit |
OVS |
Official Veterinary Surgeon |
Parenteral |
By any other route than by the mouth or by the bowel |
R&D |
Research and development |
Real terms |
Levels of expenditure have been adjusted for inflation |
Research Councils |
Non-departmental public bodies that fund research, established under the Science and Technology Act 1965 and by Royal Charter |
RPI |
Retail Price Index |
Ruminant feed ban |
From 18 July 1988 onwards this banned the use of MBM (unless derived from non-ruminants) in feed for ruminants (mainly cattle and sheep). The precise terms of the ban are set out in the Bovine Spongiform Encepholapathy Order 1988 |
SBO |
Specified Bovine Offal: brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines |
SCA |
The EU's Special Committee on Agriculture |
SEAC |
Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee |
ScVC |
The EU's Scientific Veterinary Committee |
SVC |
The EU's Standing Veterinary Committee |
TSEs |
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies |
Tyrrell Committee |
The Consultative Committee on Research into Spongiform Encephalopathies |
UK |
United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland |
UKASTA |
UK Agricultural Trade Supply Association |
UKRA |
UK Renderers' Association |
UKRep |
UK Permanent Representation/Representative to the European Union |
vCJD |
New variant CJD |
VIC |
Veterinary Investigation Centre |
VPC |
Veterinary Products Committee |
