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Grain suppliers want government answers

12th July 2001, Page 7
12th July 2001
Page 7
Page 7, 12th July 2001 — Grain suppliers want government answers
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• UKASTA, the grain suppliers' organisation, is hoping that the shoddy treatment it says it has received at the hands of the government will be exposed today (Thursday), when the Rouse of Commons debates the handling of the foot-and-mouth crisis. It is now almost four months since UKASTA asked the Ministry of Agriculture for a list of hauliers whose vehicles have been involved in the transport of carcasses and therefore could have been infected with foot and mouth. But with the harvest period just weeks away, UKASTA is waiting for a list of these vehicles, which are banned from carrying grain under the terms of the UKASTA code. "If it wasn't so serious, it would be silly," says UKASTA's Jeremy Smith.