Whether the waste material derived from foot-and-mouth disease infected carcasses is being burnt at temperatures high enough to kill any to…

Answered Asked by Tommy Sheridan SSP Lodged 12 Dec 2001

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the waste material derived from foot-and-mouth disease infected carcasses is being burnt at temperatures high enough to kill any toxins produced by the carcasses.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 26 Dec 2001 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

The pyre ash generated by 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 pyres achieved an extremely efficient burn rate and analysis of the ash has shown that the material poses no environmental or public health risk if disposed of at a suitably licensed engineered landfill site.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-21006 by reference.