National Scrapie Plan

The National Scrapie Plan (NSP) for Great Britain is a strategic long-term plan which consists of a breeding programme to increase the number of sheep that are naturally resistant to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE), eg scrapie.

Aims of the National Scrapie Plan are to protect:

• animal health by reducing and eventually eradicating scrapie, and
• public health from the theoretical risk of BSE, if it was being masked by scrapie.