The consumption of prime beef cuts is down, animals have been slaughtered by the
thousand and 3 farmers have committed suicide as the mad-cow issue continues to cause …

Professor Lacey is well known on UK television and radio as a controversial campaigner for
food safety, and has previously spoken out on contamination of food by Salmonella and …

" BSE was a calamity waiting to happen," writes the author in this excellent report on me
reaction of the British government, its experts and the beef industry to an emerging …

In December 1988 while appearing before a European Community (EC) parliamentary
hearing in Strasbourg, France, the author received a rather earnest call from the US …

A BRITISH SUNDAY LUNCH without roast beef? Unthinkable, but increasingly true. Sales of
beef are about 20% down since the beginning of the year, and in the supermarkets even …

In 1989, the Commons Agriculture Committee castigated the handling of the salmonella in
eggs disaster as “a failure of government”. The one certainty about the BSE catastrophe is …

The following paper was prepared as written evidence to the House of Commons joint
Agriculture and Health Committees' hearings into BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) …

HARRIET RITVO years ago, when mad cow disease arrived in th lines to stay, not everyone
was shocked. Faithful l ing Today, which airs just after six o'clock every Radio 4, already …

Nearly ten years ago, a hitherto unknown neurological condition, bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE), appeared in British cows. It was labelled 'mad cow disease' …

The biggest beneficiary of the US's meat crisis may well be Australia, the largest exporter
never known to suffer a case of mad cow. It is probably no coincidence that most of its cattle …