Whether vehicles transporting ash derived from the pyres of foot-and-mouth disease infected carcasses are washed so as to prevent the risk …

The pyre ash being transported from the three mass burn sites used during the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Dumfries and Galloway and the Borders is material resultant from the cremation of animals which did not have foot-and-mouth disease but were on farms contiguous to an infected premises. The ash is being disposed of at a suitably licensed engineered landfill site in accordance with advice from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.Although the material presents no foot-and-mouth disease risk, as a precaution, the loaded vehicles are washed and disinfected as they leave the burn sites and are again washed and disinfected as they leave the landfill site once they have been emptied.