HL Deb 26 June 1996 vol 573 cc60-1WA
Lord Jenkins of Putney

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they now believe that BSE can be, and has been, caught by human beings in the form of CJD in the light of the evidence of the neuro-surgeon Alan Colchester to the Canterbury City Council on 25th May this year in which he referred to "the transmission of prions, the infectious agents causing scrapie in sheep, BSE in cattle and CJD in man, to farm animals, wild animals, domestic pets and man" in opposing planning permission for the use of fields by renderers.

Baroness Cumberlege

The Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee advice remains that there is still no scientific evidence to link positively any case of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease to exposure to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.