Sloppy procedures blamed for BSE-test fiasco

Article Abstract:

The UK Accreditation Service has claimed that the Institute for Animal Health in Edinburgh, Scotland, had no formal procedure for monitoring records connected with a vital experiment to ascertain whether BSE had infected sheep. This led to scientists spending four years working on cow brains when they believed they were testing sheep brains.

United Kingdom, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Science & research, Veterinary Services, Veterinary Laboratories, Management, Health care industry, Institute for Animal Health

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How did top scientists mix up brains from cattle and sheep?

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The UK Institute for Animal Health and the Dept for the Environment, Food and rural Affairs are both holding inquiries into how a team of top scientists investigating whether bovine spongiform encephalopathy had infected sheep at the end of the 1980s mistakenly studied cow brains instead of sheep brains.

Livestock, Except Dairy and Poultry, Cattle Ranching and Farming, Dairy Cattle and Milk Production, Dairy farms, Beef Cows, Dairy Cows, Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Cows (Cattle)

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Protect us from these animals

Article Abstract:

The possibility of BSE being present in the UK sheep population is discussed. It is argued that control measures should be introduced now, even though firm evidence has not yet been obtained.

Column, Prevention

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