The inquiry into the BSE scandal leaves us no clearer about the future health of today's children. Maggie Jones reports
The Phillips report on BSE, popularly known as 'mad cow disease', has revealed the chain of incompetence and cover-up behind a crisis which has half destroyed the British meat industry and caused 85 people to die from new variant CJD (vCJD).
But while the majority of those who have died contracted the disease in their teens and twenties, the question that needs to be asked is, how safe are children now?
There seems to be little doubt that the measures taken to combat BSE have resulted in a dramatic reduction in the numbers of cows suffering from BSE and the disease should be all but eliminated some time next year.
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