Section 28 Arrangements for sharing information about food-borne zoonoses.

The Agency and each authority to which this section applies with responsibility for any matter connected with food-borne zoonoses shall make arrangements with a view to securing (so far as reasonably practicable) that any information relating to food-borne zoonoses in the possession of either of them is furnished or made available to the other.

The authorities to which this section applies are Ministers of the Crown, the National Assembly for Wales, Scottish Ministers and Northern Ireland Departments.

Arrangements under this section may also include arrangements for co-ordinating the activities of the Agency and the authority concerned in relation to matters connected with food-borne zoonoses.

Arrangements under this section shall be kept under review by the Agency and the authority concerned.

In this section “food-borne zoonosis” means any disease of, or organism carried by, animals which constitutes a risk to the health of humans through the consumption of, or contact with, food.