Resumen de Protecting plant and animal health

• LIKE the chicken and the egg, it's difficult to be sure what came first, the strategy or the agency. Nevertheless, a report called ‘Animal and Plant Health in the UK: Building our science capability’, which was published by the Government Office for Science and Defra in the week before Christmas,1 makes fascinating reading, not least because it comes just a couple of months after the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) was formed by merging elements of the Food and Environment Research Agency with the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VR, August 30, 2014, vol 175, p 182; October 4, 2014, vol 175, p 314)....