EPPO Global Database

EPPO Reporting Service no. 04 - 2009 Num. article: 2009/074

Central Science Laboratory (CSL) is now part of the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera)


In the United Kingdom, the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) became part of the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) on the 2009-04-01. This new agency brought together CSL, Plant Health Division, Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate, and the Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division. The Agency’s main science laboratories will be located at Sand Hutton near York (where CSL was located), with seed offices in Cambridge, a wildlife study centre in Gloucestershire and around 40 other small shared office facilities for its plant health inspectorate around the United Kingdom.

More information can be found on the Internet: http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk/

Sources

EPPO Secretariat, 2009-04.