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British Meat Online: Information on British meat and nutrition issues with pages on healthy eating, information for healthcare professionals, and a collection of recipes which would not appeal to vegetarians.
Author: British Meat
Subjects: bse, food safety, nutrition
DeweyClass: 641.36
Resource type: documents
BSE / CJD Home Page: Articles from the British Medical Journal on BSE and New-Variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.
Author: British Medical Association
Subjects: bse, cjd
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: articles
BSE for the Scientific World: Extensive information on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Includes general information, reports, publications, research as well as non-scientific information.
Author: Dealler, Steve
Subjects: bse
DeweyClass: 338.14
Resource type: documents
BSE Inquiry: Details of a government inquiry into the history, emergence and identification of BSE and new variant CJD in the UK. Includes full text transcripts and witness statements, a glossary, archived press releases, and a BSE timeline. Documents available in HTML, Word, or PDF.
Author: BSE Inquiry
Subjects: bse, cjd
DeweyClass: 616.83
Resource type: documents
BSE Inquiry Report: Full text of the final report of the UK public inquiry into the emergence and identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (nCJD), and actions taken in response by the British government.
Author: UK Government
Subjects: bse, cjd, livestock, public health
DeweyClass: 616.83
Resource type: documents
BSE: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Official UK government information on BSE, a disease of cattle first identified in 1986. Includes information on public health (the controls put in place by the Government for the protection of consumers from BSE), the measures taken to eradicate BSE and protect animal health, on support to the beef industry, the effects of BSE in the rest of Europe and Europe's response, the science of BSE (details of research), BSE statistics, and MAFF publications.
Author: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Subjects: bse, cjd, consumer advice, food safety, livestock, public health
DeweyClass: 338.14
Resource type: documents
Human BSE Foundation: Support organisation for relatives, friends, and carers of victims of variant Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (vCJD) Provides personal testimonies, briefing sheets, statistics, and research information.
Author: Human BSE Foundation
Subjects: bse, cjd
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents
Mad Cows: An Infectious Agent With No Genes: Summary of the current consensus and evidence about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), CJD, and the prion hypothesis.
Author: Wisconsin University
Subjects: bse, cjd, proteins
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: article
Prion Diseases: Document describing infectious agents which do not have a nucleic acid genome. They are called prions, which are defined as 'small proteinaceous infectious particles which resist inactivation by procedures that modify nucleic acids'. Examples of prion diseases are scrapie, tme, cwd, bse, and cjd.
Author: Heaphy, Shaun
Subjects: bse, cjd, proteins
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: document
Prion Diseases and the BSE Crisis: Article considering how bovine prions may have been passed to humans, resulting in a new form of CJD. Prions are transmissible particles that are devoid of nucleic acid and seem to be composed exclusively of a modified protein. BSE and human CJD are among the most notable central nervous system degenerative disorders caused by prions.
Author: Prusiner, Stanley B.
Subjects: bse, cjd, proteins
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: article