The regulations, brought in following foot-and-mouth disease, are expected to be cut to six days.
Foot-and-mouth disease causes blisters on the mouth and feet, fever and loss of appetite.
Meanwhile, the province's farmers are waiting to see whether further cases of foot-and-mouth disease emerge.
It was the rapid unrecorded movement of livestock which caused foot-and-mouth disease to spread out of control.
Beef export volumes rose by 86% last year, thanks partly to efforts to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
This threatens beef exports: European Union rules bar mixing cattle with beasts that may have foot-and-mouth disease.
Scotland's tourism industry has been badly affected by the restrictions imposed in the wake of the foot-and-mouth disease.
Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with cloven hooves such as pigs, sheep and cows.
In some countries, indeed, vaccination is the method used to control foot-and-mouth disease.
After helping Maff during the 1967 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, he moved to Kenya in 1968 where he worked until 1974.
Britain's livestock industry has come to a complete standstill after the government banned the transport of all animals that could carry foot-and-mouth disease.
LONDON, England -- Seven more cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been confirmed in the UK, taking the total number of sites affected to 39.
They will discuss how they can allow people onto their land without undermining the current restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
The planned cull is part of a joint effort by the Northern Ireland Republic of Ireland governments to try to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
"One of the problems is that in the developing world, they haven't got the resources or the will to be bothered about foot-and-mouth disease, " Donaldson said.
Conservative peer Lord Inglewood, who farms in Cumbria, disclosed that foot-and-mouth disease had been confirmed on his sheep and dairy farm near Penrith over the weekend.
Its provincial hotels, like Hilton's or those of lesser groups, such as Jarvis, were never too hard-hit by world events, though foot-and-mouth disease hurt them in 2001.
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The United States reported its last outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1929, while Canada and swathes of Central America have been free of the virus since the early 1950s.
The Order of the Bath goes to Debby Reynolds, the government's former chief vet, who led efforts to deal with this year's outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and avian flu.
Hundreds of thousands of rural business owners are having a torrid time due to foot-and-mouth disease, and the manufacturing sector has been crippled by the strength of the pound.
The big worry is predators, such as coyotes and nightmares such as foot-and-mouth disease (though the spotlight this summer was on Texan cattlemen in their battle against a case of mad-cow disease).
The potential hazards of working with viruses was underlined in 2007 when the Pirbright laboratory site was identified as the source of a leak which led to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
"The foot-and-mouth-disease virus epidemic in the UK in 2001 was disastrous and cost the economy billions of pounds in control measures and compensation, " explained Dr Bryan Charleston, Head of Livestock Viral Diseases Programme at the Pirbright Institute.
Britain recorded its 1, 000th case of foot-and-mouth disease.
Even a partial list of other countries where foot-and-mouth disease has been reported over the past 18 months reads a bit like an atlas: Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Greece, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi, Malaysia, Namibia, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Taipei, Turkey, Uruguay and Zimbabwe.
The vet's prognosis -- foot and mouth disease -- marked the beginning of a six-month nightmare that saw Oswestry reduced to a ghost town and the entire British farming industry pitched into crisis.
The discovery shows the sheep have been exposed to foot-and-mouth - further tests are being conducted to see if the disease itself is present.
Meanwhile, in the Irish Republic, which so far appears clear of foot-and-mouth, further emergency disease prevention legislation came into effect on Friday.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Newspapers across continental Europe are signalling alarm about the spreading foot and mouth disease in Britain.
The foot-and-mouth epidemic has hit the UK economy hard, with a report showing that the disease contributed to a slowdown that has seen more than 100 business a day going bust.
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