British beef banned in Europe

Title

British beef banned in Europe

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

22 Mar 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:02:47

Description

France and Belgium have banned British beef and the European Commission is considering a continent-wide ban on Britain’s biggest meat export as the scare about the link between BSE and its human form Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease continues. Our reporter Kevin Murphy has been to the traditional home of the meat trade, London’s Smithfield meat market. Contributions from Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell, butchers and meat trade representatives, scientists, anti-meat campaigners, and David Churchill, whose son died of CJD.

Contributors

Stephen Dorrell; Kevin Murphy; Stephen Dealer; Douglas Eland; Toni(?) Vanelli(?); John Absalon; John Pattison; John Brewster; David Churchill

Keywords

Health; UK; International relations; France; Meat; Beef; Belgium; Food; Illness; Meat trade; Transmission; CJD; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Animal products; BSE; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; EC

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