ACVO |
Assistant Chief Veterinary Officer |
ADAS |
Agricultural Development and Advisory Service |
Autosomal dominant |
An inherited trait that will be expressed if it is encoded on a single chromosome other than a sex chromosome |
BABs |
Cattle verified as having been Born After the ruminant feed Ban |
BCVA |
British Cattle Veterinary Association |
BSE |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
BVA |
British Veterinary Association |
CDSC |
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre |
CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
CMO |
Chief Medical Officer |
CPU |
Consultant Pathology Unit (at the CVL) |
CSM |
Committee on Safety of Medicines |
CVL |
Central Veterinary Laboratory |
CVO |
Chief Veterinary Officer |
DAFS |
Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland |
DANI |
Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland |
DH |
Department of Health |
DHSS |
Department of Health and Social Security. In 1988 the DHSS split into two separate Departments: the DH (see above) and DSS |
EC |
European Community. See EU |
ELISA |
Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay: a sensitive test to measure small amounts of a particular protein in solution |
EU |
European Union. The European Union (EU) came into existence on 1 November 1993 as a result of the Maastricht Treaty. It incorporated but did not replace the European Community. Throughout the volumes of this Report, 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 |
FAC |
Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives |
GAFTA |
Grain and Feed Trade Association |
GB |
Great Britain: ie, England, Scotland and Wales |
MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
MBM |
Meat and bone meal |
NFU |
National Farmers' Union |
NPU |
Neuropathogenesis Unit |
OIE |
Office International des Epizooties |
PES |
Public Expenditure Survey |
PHLS |
Public Health Laboratory Service |
PQ |
Parliamentary Question |
PrP |
Prion protein |
Q&A |
Question and Answer |
R&D |
Research and development |
SAFs |
Scrapie-associated fibrils |
SBO |
Specified Bovine Offal |
Southwood Working Party |
Working Party established in May 1988 to examine the implications of BSE in relation to both animal health and any possible human health hazards |
SVIO |
Senior Veterinary Investigation Officer |
SVS |
State Veterinary Service |
Titre |
A measure of concentration of a substance in a solution |
Tolworth |
Tolworth in Surrey was the location of MAFF's Animal Health Group and the headquarters of the SVS |
TSE |
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy |
UK |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
UKASTA |
UK Agricultural Supply Trade Association |
UKRA |
UK Renderers' Association |
VFS |
Veterinary Field Service |
VIC (or VI Centre) |
Veterinary Investigation Centre |
VIDA |
Veterinary Investigation Diagnostic Analysis |
VIO |
Veterinary Investigation Officer |
VIS |
Veterinary Investigation Section |
VI Service |
Veterinary Investigation Service |
WHO |
World Health Organisation |
WOAD |
Welsh Office Agriculture Department |
Zoonosis |
Animal disease which can be transmitted to humans |
