TY  - JOUR
AB  - Considers recent developments in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
and their relation to Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD). Sheep scrapie is
now known to be irrelevant to the cause of both BSE and CJD. The range
of species of animals acquiring novel spongiform encephalopathies
continues to broaden. The failure to find infectivity in many tissues of
BSE cattle has been due to the use of an inappropriate and insensitive
assay method. The occurrence of vertical transfer of BSE from dam to
calf is now accepted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
(MAFF), as shown by the recent removal from the human food chain of
intestines and the thymus from young calves. During the last year, the
probability that CJD is caused by BSE has increased.
VL  - 96
IS  - 7
SN  - 0007-070X
DO  - 10.1108/00070709410076360
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/00070709410076360
AU  - Lacey R.W.
PY  - 1994
Y1  - 1994/01/01
TI  - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: A “Progress” Report
T2  - British Food Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 46
EP  - 48
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -