Orchid Cellmark awarded U.K. national scrapie plan genotyping contract
The contract renewal is part of the National Scrapie Plan for Great Britain developed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in conjunction with the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Departments in Scotland and Wales. The voluntary National Scrapie Plan is a long-term initiative of the U.K. government to eradicate scrapie from the national flock and thereby reduce the economic costs and potential risk to the sheep industry posed by sheep with scrapie. Orchid Cellmark's genotyping service has analyzed the DNA of approximately two million sheep under this program since 2001.
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