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Volume 9: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Part 2: Scotland
9. Departmental responsibilities

9.1 As mentioned earlier, the two Departments mainly responsible for handling the outbreak of BSE were the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland (DAFS), which was concerned with animal health matters, and the Scottish Home and Health Department (SHHD), concerned with human health.

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