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Report on the circumstances leading to the 1996 outbreak of infection with E.coli 0157 in Central Scotland, the implications for food safety and the lessons to be learned.
 
ANNEX IV
(Para 1.12 refers)
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
Those who gave oral (and, in many cases, also written) evidence or information to the Group were:-
 
Consultants in Public Health Medicine (Communicable Diseases/Environmental Health)
 
Dr S Ahmed, Lanarkshire Health Board
Dr J Curnow, Grampian Health Board
Dr M Donaghy, Lanarkshire Health Board
Dr D Moir, Lanarkshire Health Board
Dr C Ramsay, Lothian Health Board
Dr A Riley, Forth Valley Health Board
Dr M Rowarth, Tayside Health Board
Dr P Upton, Lothian Health Board
 
Environmental Health Officers
 
Mr G Bryceland, North Lanarkshire Council
Mr A Campbell, West Lothian Council
Mr W Davidson, Dumfries and Galloway Council/Scottish Food Co-ordinating Committee
Mr S Heggie, Angus Council
Mr R House, East Renfrewshire Council/Scottish Food Co-ordinating Committee
Mr C Houston, Aberdeenshire Council
Mr R Main, Falkirk Council
Mr C Morgan, West Lothian Council
Mr M Proctor, North Lanarkshire Council
Mrs E Corbett, Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland/City of Glasgow Council
Mr J Frater, Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
 
Organisations
 
Working Group of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food
The Meat and Livestock Commission
The Meat Hygiene Service
The State Veterinary Service
 
Others
 
Mr J Barr, John M Barr & Son, Wishaw
Dr W Reilly, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health
Dr B Rowe, Public Health Laboratory Service, Colindale
Dr C Wray, Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Addlestone, Surrey
 
Written comments and/or information were offered by:-
 
Department of Health
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Dr P Loaharanu, Food & Environmental Protection Section, International Atomic Energy Agency, Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN
Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health
Scottish Food Co-ordinating Committee
Dr D Jenkinson, formerly SOAEFD
 
In addition, the Group had the benefit of responses to consultations on issues raised in its Interim Report and very many people and organisations wrote giving advice, information or opinions to the Group. It is not possible here to record all of these, but the thanks of the Group go to everyone who contributed in any way to its work.
       
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