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TI Government Claims Challenged
QU The Manchester Guardian Weekly 1995 Nov 26
IA http://envirolink.org/arrs/news/bse_in_the_news.html
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Renewed fears that "mad cow disease" - bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - could lead to an epidemic of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans were raised by a medical microbiologist, who questioned the government's assertion that the public were not at risk.
Dr Stephen Dealler, writing in the British Food Journal, claimed that most adult British meat-eaters will, by 2001, have ingested a potentially fatal dose of meat infected with BSE. The disease was thought to have been caused by feeding cattle with infected foodstuffs. That practice was ended in 1988, but 18,000 cases of BSE have been reported since, and even the Ministry of Agriculture suspects that cases are under-reported.
Dr Dealler said that the medical and dietary professions should question the present policy of "waiting passively" to see if the incidence of CJD rises in the UK. Present methods of diagnosing CJD were inadequate, he said, and "aggressive" and long-term research was needed.
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