BSE risk to cattle and humans

Title

BSE risk to cattle and humans

Genre

Interview

TX Date

5 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:26

Description

Havovi Todd interviews Labour Party agriculture spokesman Dr David Clarke on the risk of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle being passed onto humans in the form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) as diseased cattle are getting into the food chain as the Government is not paying farmers enough compensation for them not to do it. For FM breakfast programme.

Contributors

David Clarke; Havovi Todd

Keywords

Compensation; Beef; Food safety; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Food control; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; Diseases of cattle

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