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Publication - Advice and guidance

Foot and mouth disease: veterinary risk assessments (VRAs)

Last updated
31 October 2025 - see all updates
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic
Farming and rural

These VRAs are tools developed to objectively assess the likelihood of an event happening, and its potential impact.

This suite of VRAs was produced as part of the Scottish Government's review of its preparedness for an outbreak of foot and mouth disease.

Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 1: walking susceptible livestock over public roads in Restricted Zones
File type
8 page PDF
File size
215.6 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 1A: walking susceptible livestock over public roads in Temporary Control, Surveillance or Protection Zones
File type
10 page PDF
File size
231.7 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 2: moving fallen stock for disposal in a Restricted Zone
File type
11 page PDF
File size
237.2 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 2A: moving fallen stock for disposal in a Protection or Surveillance Zone
File type
14 page PDF
File size
218.9 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 3: moving stray susceptible animals from roads in Restricted Zones
File type
8 page PDF
File size
218.0 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 3A: moving stray susceptible animals from roads in Protection or Surveillance Zones
File type
10 page PDF
File size
157.9 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 4: allowing susceptible animals in transit to market to return home in Restricted Zones
File type
PDF
File size
254.5 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 5: moving animal by-products from slaughterhouses in Restricted Zones
File type
7 page PDF
File size
213.9 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 6: moving carcases of animals slaughtered on suspicion or confirmation of FMD
File type
8 page PDF
File size
170.2 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 7: movements to slaughter within the Restricted Zone
File type
7 page PDF
File size
208.3 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 8: allowing livestock services in a Restricted Zone
File type
7 page PDF
File size
262.1 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 9: movements from Scottish Islands within the Restricted Zone
File type
7 page PDF
File size
213.3 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 10: walking
File type
9 page PDF
File size
224.5 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 11: cycling
File type
9 page PDF
File size
223.6 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 12: canoeing
File type
9 page PDF
File size
224.7 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 13: fishing
File type
9 page PDF
File size
224.9 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 14: horse riding
File type
10 page PDF
File size
232.3 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 15: equestrian events
File type
10 page PDF
File size
237.3 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 16: horse-racing events
File type
10 page PDF
File size
234.3 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 17: events on agricultural land
File type
9 page PDF
File size
225.1 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 18: organised sporting events
File type
9 page PDF
File size
302.5 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 19: hunting
File type
10 page PDF
File size
235.0 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 20: shooting deer
File type
10 page PDF
File size
292.6 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 21: shooting birds
File type
10 page PDF
File size
288.2 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 22 : infection and onward transmission through camelids
File type
PDF
File size
185.5 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 23: treatment of raw milk from Protection or Surveillance zones and producing milk products
File type
6 page PDF
File size
168.5 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 24: transportation of raw milk from Protection or Surveillance zones
File type
6 page PDF
File size
169.7 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 25: authorising labs to test raw milk from Protection or Surveillance zones
File type
5 page PDF
File size
161.7 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 26: moving fodder in the Protection Zone
File type
8 page PDF
File size
177.1 kB
Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 27: sheep shearing or dipping in Restricted, Protection or Surveillance Zones
File type
9 page PDF
File size
193.5 kB
First published
23 September 2015
Last updated
31 October 2025 - show all updates

  1. All document names updates and Veterinary risk assessment - VRA 22 : Infection and onward transmission through camelids added.

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