§ Baroness Byfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
Which six Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs-funded research projects into scrapie were started prior to 1999; and what were the start dates. [HL4536]
§ Lord WhittyThe following six research projects were those referred to as being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs prior to 1999, in the response drafted to Baroness Byford, following the debate on the TSE (England) (Amendment) Regulation 2004 on 8 September.
Project code Title Start date SE1424 The study of BSE in sheep and the possibility of its vertical transmission 1996 SE1428 Pathogenesis studies of experimental BSE in sheep 1997 SE1429 Characterisation (by transmission to mice) of BSE from experimentally infected sheep of diffrent PrP genotypes 1998 SE1432 The susceptibility of NZ sheep to TSE infectivity and linkage with PrP genotypes 1998 SE1919 Studies to identify possible homologies between scrapie agents in the British sheep population and the agent of BSE 1995 SE1929 Studies of experimental BSE in genetically susceptible sheep 1998