LONDON (AFP) -- Britain lifted the last livestock restrictions imposed after last month's foot and mouth outbreak after experts said the disease had been ""eradicated"" from the country.

The surveillance zone around the outbreak site in rural Surrey, south-west of London, was removed.
Additional controls on livestock shows and markets and a 20-day stand-still for animals following movement ceased from midday.
""I'm satisfied that foot-and-mouth has been eradicated from the UK in 2007,"" Britain's chief vet Debby Reynolds said Friday as investigators said the outbreak was probably caused by leaking drains, flooding and vehicles moving from nearby laboratories, without specifying the exact source.
""It is now pretty clear that the outbreak originated at Pirbright but it isn't possible to pinpoint the exact source,"" said HSE chief executive Geoffrey Podger, presenting a report on the outbreak.
Investigators focused on problems with the drainage system at the site, near to a series of outbreaks of the potentially devastating disease at the start of August.
The outbreaks raised the spectre of a repeat of a 2001 crisis, in which up to 10 million animals were culled and which cost the national economy about eight billion pounds (11.7 billion euros, 16.0 billion dollars).
Professor Brian Spratt, who conducted an independent assessment, said investigators had ""found no problems"" with biosecurity at Merial, while the government-run facility was known to be ageing and in need of repair