NR AWTI
AU Burke,P.
TI BSE and the safety of milk
QU The Veterinary Record 2007 Mar 10; 160(10): 347; author reply 347
KZ Vet Rec. 2007 Feb 17;160(7):215-8. PMID: 17308017
PT comment; letter
VT
SIR, ? Dr Michael Tyshenko's paper on BSE and the safety of milk from Canadian dairy cattle (Tyshenko 2007) commented that the experimentally established value of 10 per cent, based on references published in 1997, remains the accepted contribution for the maternal transmission of BSE in cattle populations.
A subsequent paper based on BSE surveillance and clinical incidence data in Great Britain (Donnelly and others 2002) estimated the probability of maternal transmission of BSE in cattle to be 0.5 per cent (range 0 to 2.8 per cent) in the last six months of the maternal incubation period. The authors concluded that even allowing for the possible impact of the offspring cull in Great Britain, the 2002 estimate is substantially lower than the 1997 estimate.
MH Animals; Canada/epidemiology; Cattle; *Consumer Product Safety; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/*epidemiology/etiology; Female; Great Britain/epidemiology; *Milk
AD Patrick Burke, BSE and Animal By-Products Division, DEFRA, Area 309, 1A Page Street, London SW1P 4PQ
SP englisch
PO England