Bacteriophage Report copies in the UK

Thank you for your Freedom of Information requested dated 31st
August 2010 (Ref No. 14-09-2010-145230-003), consisting of the
following.

In January 2010 you kindly sent me as promised, a copy of ‘A
Literature Review of the Practical Application of Bacteriophage
Research’, Nina Chanishvili, Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage,
Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2009. This was a G8
Priority Global Partnership project dating back to 2006. Please
could you inform me of the number of copies that are now in
circulation in the UK amongst interested parties and potential
stake-holders etc., and when these were sent out?

Response: We have assessed your request under the Freedom of
Information Act. As a result, we can confirm that we hold the
information that you have requested as follows.

MoD and Dstl distributed approximately 15 copies of ‘A Literature
Review of the Practical Application of Bacteriophage Research’ in
the period of January to March 2010. We distributed an additional
20 copies at the ‘Bacteriophage in Biology, Biotechnology and
Medicine’ UK Conference, Welwyn Garden City, on 26th February 2010.

We encouraged the Eliava Institute to issue copies of their report
directly to interested parties. The author also spoke at several
venues when she was in the UK earlier this year, and has attended
conferences in France and Australia. We do not know the number of
copies of the review she sent out directly herself to UK
recipients, including in the context of these events.

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[original copy signed on DII(F)]

Simon Skerritt