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The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a UK government department, dealing with agriculture, fisheries and food safety. It was widely criticised for its handling of the BSE crisis and later the foot and mouth epidemic, and its functions were transferred to the new Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Its dissolution leaves only one ministry left in the UK government, the Ministry of Defence.
See: Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
