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• A meeting to discuss the effects of livestock movement during the feet and mouth crisis must be called "immediately" says Jim Reed. chief executive of UKASTA, the organisation which represents grain suppliers,
Reed says all interested parties in the food chain should attend, including the Ministry of Agriculture and the Road Haulage and Freight Transport Associations, His comments follow MAFF's fail ure to supply UKASTA with a list of hauliers who have been involved in the movement of foot and mouth carcasses.
• Farmer Richard David Thomas, trading as DJ Thomas and Co of Neuaddlwyd, ['affair Caereinion, has appeared before magistrates in Welshpool charged with exporting a lamb suspected of being infected with foot and mouth disease to Hamers International Abattoir in Llanidloes.