In what the UK Government are calling the ‘most radical changes to UK quarantine laws for almost a century’ the Advisory Group on Quarantine, chaired by Professor Ian Kennedy, published their review of quarantine legislation in September 1998. The Group was set up to provide the Government with an independent assessment of the risk of introducing rabies to the UK under the current policy of quarantine for pet animals, and under proposed alternative policies; the first review since the Waterhouse Committee reported back in 1971. If the recommendations are accepted, then taking pets on holiday to Europe (not to mention package deals for people and pets) will become a reality for many UK citizens.