# Agriculture minister Willie Aucamp says qualifying private companies will be allowed to use the Agricultural Research Council’s intellectual property to manufacture its foot-and-mouth disease vaccine at scale. The council’s board unanimously agreed to the permission. It says its vaccine is effective against local strains with one annual dose, but cannot manufacture at scale. Aucamp says the partnership is a decisive breakthrough to safeguard livestock and secure food supply:
Minister Aucamp says private sector will help produce local FMD vaccine [SOUND]
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