The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has this week decided that an Oxfordshire-based veterinary surgeon should be removed from the RCVS Register, having found him guilty of disgraceful professional conduct.

At the hearing, John Williams of the Avonvale Veterinary Practice in Ratley, near Banbury, admitted signing export health certificates for three horses in October 2006 to state that they had received negative test results for the contagious equine metritis organism, before these results were actually available. At the time, Mr Williams was working in his capacity as an Official Veterinarian (OV) for DEFRA.

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