Animal and Plant Health Agency
Access to Information Team
Woodham Lane
www.gov.uk/apha
New Haw
Addlestone
Surrey
KT15 3NB
Ms Buckley
Our ref: FOI2023/10366
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
10 June 2023
Dear Ms Buckley,
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: Brucella canis information Thank you for your request for information of 26th May about Brucella canis. APHA
have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
Your information request and our response are set out below.
“Please can you tell me what the sensitivity and specificity (plus 95% confidence interval
associated with each) is for the RSA test used by your laboratory to detect Brucella canis
positive dogs in the UK.”
Rapid Slide Agglutination assay (RSA) is estimated to be 70.15% (95% Confidence
Interval 59.65 - 79.25%).
The Diagnostic Specificity of the RSA is estimated to be 98.68% (95% Confidence interval
97.83 - 99.22%)
Please note: Validation is a continuous process and the number may change over time
as more samples become available.
Information disclosed in response to this FOI request is releasable to the public. In
keeping with the spirit and effect of the FOIA and the government’s Transparency
Agenda, this letter and the information disclosed to you may be plac
ed on GOV.UK,
together with any related information that wil provide a key to its wider context. No
information identifying you wil be placed on the GOV.UK website.
An Annex is attached which explains the copyright that applies to the information being
released to you and contact details should you be unhappy with the service you have
received.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact the Access to Information Team
at the email address below or postal address at the top of this letter.
Yours sincerely
APHA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and also works on behalf of the Scottish
Government, Welsh Government and Food Standards Agency to safeguard animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the
environment and the economy.
Access to Information Team
xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
APHA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and also works on behalf of the Scottish
Government, Welsh Government and Food Standards Agency to safeguard animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the
environment and the economy
Annex
Copyright
The information supplied to you continues to be protected by copyright. You are free to
use it for your own purposes, including for private study and non-commercial research,
and for any other purpose authorised by an exception in current copyright law.
Documents (except photographs or logos) can also be used in the UK without requiring
permission for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example
commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder.
Most documents produced by APHA wil be protected by Crown Copyright. Most Crown
copyright information can be re-used under the
Open Government Licence. For information
about the OGL and about re-using Crown Copyright information please see
The National
Archives website. Copyright in other documents may rest with a third party. For information about
obtaining permission from a third party see the
Intel ectual Property Office’s website. Complaints
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request, you
may make a complaint or appeal against our decision under section 17(7) of the FOIA
within 40 working days of the date of this letter. Please write to the Access to
Information Team at the address at the top of this letter or email
xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx and the team wil arrange for an internal review of your case.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, section 50 of the FOIA
gives you the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a
decision. Please note that generally the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have
first exhausted APHA’s own complaints procedure.
The ICO can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Please click
here for further contact details.
APHA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and also works on behalf of the Scottish
Government, Welsh Government and Food Standards Agency to safeguard animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the
environment and the economy
