§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Who were the members of the bodies that provided them with evidence about BSE, and what were their commercial affiliations.
Lord LucasThe Government obtain evidence about BSE from a wide range of sources. This evidence is evaluated by the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) whose remit is to advise the Government on matters relating to spongiform encephalopathies.
The members of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Committee are:
Chairman:
Professor J. R. Pattison—Professor of Medical Microbiology and Dean of the University College, London Medical School
Deputy Chairman:
Dr. R. G. Will—Consultant Neurologist and Head of the National CJD Surveillance Unit
Members:
Professor Ingrid Allen—Professor of Neuropathology at the Queen's University of Belfast
Professor J. W. Almond—A Virologist and Professor of Microbiology at the University of Reading
50WAMr. R. Bradley CBE—A Veterinary Pathologist and Chairman of the BSE sub-group of the EC Scientific Veterinary Committee
Professor F. Brown FRS—Deputy Director (Scientific) of the Animal Virus Research Institute, Long Island, New York, USA
Professor J. Collinge—A Clinical Neurologist and head of the Prion Diseases Group at St. Mary's Hospital, London
Dr. W. D. Hueston—Veterinary Epidemiologist, United States Department of Agriculture
Dr. R. H. Kimberlin—Independent Consultant on Scrapie and related diseases
Dr. M. Painter—A Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, City of Manchester
Dr. D. B. Pepper—Private Veterinary Surgeon
Professor P. G. Smith—An Epidemiologist from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. W. A. Watson—Former Director of the Central Veterinary Laboratory