Food Commission call for inquiry into mad cow disease

Title

Food Commission call for inquiry into mad cow disease

Genre

Interview

TX Date

7 Dec 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:03:50

Description

Interview with Tim Lobstein, co-director of the independent watchdog, the Food Commission, which has warned government ministers that by not setting up an independent inquiry into mad cow disease and safety of eating beef they could be causing unnecessary hysteria. He says the government may be putting the beef industry over consumer safety and schools should take beef products off menus. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Tim Lobstein

Keywords

Beef; School meals; Food safety; Beef industry; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Independent regulatory commissions; Bovine spongiform encephalophathy; Food Commission

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