§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will publish the latest evidence on the links between BSE and new variant CJD. [164072]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonI have been asked to reply.
The research referred to is published in international scientific literature, not by the Government.
The two latest published findings are Asante E. A. et al (2002)—the European Molecular Biology Organisation Journal, vol. 21, pp. 6358–6366 and proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA) vol. 98, pp 4142–4147. Copies of both have been placed in the Library.