This volume includes: a chronology of BSE starting from 1732 when scrapie was first recorded in sheep; a summary of the spread of BSE 1985-88; statistics; uses made of the cattle carcass; ministerial charts; DH and MAFF organisational charts; a glossary, a Who's Who and a detailed index of the report.
An Unplayable Hand?: BSE, CJD and British Government
This story begins and ends in morgues.
Professor Richard Lacey isn't; this is the story of a food crusader, an eminent scientist who put his career at risk because he believed the British people were in danger of being poisoned by their own food.
Through mid-May 2007, the United States had confirmed three cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"): the first in December 2003 in a Canadian-born cow found in Washington state, the second in June 2005 in cow ...