Offal banned for human consumption in Britain because of the risk of
transmitting BSE to people may have been entering the food chain as recently as
1995, the official BSE Inquiry was told last week. In his evidence, Andrew
Fleetwood, a senior vet at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,
described a letter from a consultant to the meat industry dated June 1995, which
noted that “unscrupulous abattoirs had cheated”.
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