BSE risk to humans

Title

BSE risk to humans

Genre

News report; Vox pop

TX Date

5 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:39

Description

Clive Myrie reports on the risk of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) transferring to humans, Labour Party claims the Government’s compensation package to farmers for infected animals is not good enough. Workers from Smithfield Market in London deny there is any chance of getting the human form of BSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). For Billboard programme.

Contributors

Clive Myrie

Keywords

Farming; Compensation; Beef; Markets; Food safety; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Smithfield Market; Billboard (radio programme); Food control; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; Diseases of cattle

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