Devon's week long inquiry into the foot-and-mouth crisis has come to an end after receiving some 400 submissions for the hearings from across the community.
Devon was one of the counties worst affected by the disease, with 173 cases confirmed and 390,000 animals slaughtered.
The last was in mid-June, but movement restrictions are still in place because the county is still designated as "at risk".
A report on the hearings will be sent to one of the government's inquiries, the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming, by the end of the month.
Ministry response
The government department which handled the crisis is still to respond to questions from the panel.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had promised to give written answers to questions.
A spokesman for Defra said the ministry had only received the questions from Devon County Council at the beginning of last week.
He said Defra staff were actively scrutinising the questions and would be responding in full as soon as possible.
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More than 350 submissions have been sent to the council's inquiry offices. They have come from agencies and special interest groups involved in responding to the outbreak, as well as farmers and other businesses affected by the crisis. Of those, 50 have been asked to give evidence.
| | BBC Radio Devon's "Country Matters" programme reviewed events from the inquiry each evening.
You can listen to each of the programmes here.
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