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23 August 2004
Canada:
meatpackers profit from BSE crisis
18 August 2004
Britain:
new findings point to larger outbreaks of vCJD "mad cow
disease"
2 August 2004
BSE/Mad
Cow Disease crisis provokes trade war
26 January 2004
Beef industry, federal regulators long ignored warnings
Mad cow discovery punctures myth of US firewall against disease
30 December 2002
Britain
buys US plasma company due to continued vCJD threat
21 January 2002
Britain:
Report highlights BSE danger from infected sheep
29 November 2001
Britain:
Government suppresses report showing hospital patients face danger
from Human BSE
26 October 2001
Britain:
Labour government accused of cover-up over BSE experiments
11 September 2001
Britain:
Big increase in human form of "Mad Cow Disease"
6 July 2001
World
Health Organisation says BSE is a major threat
7 May 2001
BSE
/ "Mad Cow Disease" spreading in Spain
5 May 2001
Britain:
Thousands of tons of condemned meat "laundered" for
human consumption
1 May 2001
Britain's
Foot and Mouth epidemic raises wider public health concerns
31 March 2001
Britain:
Calls mount for Blair to delay general election due to foot and
mouth crisis
27 March 2001
Britain:
Report links CJD cluster to local farming and butchery practices
23 March 2001
Britain:
Foot and mouth disease, "an epidemic waiting to happen"
15 March 2001
Trade
barriers go up as foot and mouth disease spreads to France
8 March 2001
Europe's
foot and mouth disease outbreak was foreseeable and preventable
An expert's view on why foot and mouth disease has
reemerged in Britain
1 March 2001
Foot
and mouth disease spreads throughout Europe
26 February 2001
With trade war looming
Canada rescinds ban on Brazilian beef
2 February 2001
Growing
concern about "Mad Cow Disease" in the US
31 January 2001
Germany
utilises BSE crisis to implement EU plans to restructure agriculture
23 January 2001
BSE/"mad
cow disease" crisis spreads throughout Europe
4 January 2001
Tons
of contaminated poultry sold for human consumption in Britain
9 November 2000
France
gripped by fear of deaths from Mad Cow Disease
3 November 2000
British
government admits to 250,000 possible variant CJD deaths
31 October 2000
Labour's
Official Inquiry into BSE/Mad Cow Disease finds no one to blame
3 October 2000
BSE
inquiry delivers report as scientists raise fresh concerns about
"mad cow disease"
20 September 2000
Hormones
in the environment: how the facts were covered up
20 July 2000
Britain:
Deaths from Human BSE reveal "statistically significant
rising trend"
12 July 2000
Renewed
fears that BSE/Mad Cow Disease can pass from one generation to
another
26 May 2000
Britain's
Prince Charles attacks science
17 March 2000
British
doctors fear mother has passed human BSE disease to baby
15 January 2000
Risk
of Mad Cow Disease growing throughout Europe
29 December 1999
Study
finds "indisputable" link between BSE/"Mad Cow
Disease" and CJD in humans
10 December 1999
Britain
demands swift action against France over beef ban
9 December 1999
Mad
Cow Disease inquiry reveals how British government protected
pharmaceutical companies at expense of public health
30 October 1999
Trade
war over beef between Britain and France
9 August 1999
What
is involved in the Genetically Modified Food debate?
19 June 1999
Legal action over dioxin poisoning in Belgium
Coca-Cola products hit by new contamination scandal
8 June 1999
Dioxin contamination scandal hits Belgium
Effects spread through European Union and beyond
3 June 1999
Safety of genetically modified food questioned
Interview with gene scientist, Dr Arpad Pusztai
17 April 1999
Further
evidence that chemical crop sprays cause adverse health effects
23 March 1999
Human BSE, nvCJD
Statistics point to increased incidence of brain-wasting disease
in Britain
24 February 1999
In row over genetically modified food
Blair defends billionaire cabinet member
17 February 1999
International
scientists raise concerns over genetically modified food
5 February 1999
Britain:
new Food Standards Agency no occasion for restored confidence
28 November 1998
Export-ban
on British beef to Europe lifted
21 November 1998
Concern
grows over genetically modified food
5 November 1998
The BSE crisis
British officials fall out over the "Beef is Safe"
campaign
20 October 1998
BSE
detected in beef passed for human consumption
16 September 1998
"Mad
cow disease" could have spread to Britain's sheep
3 September 1998
Significant
breakthrough in diagnosis of human BSE
26 August 1998
Food
poisoning deaths inquiry shields British meat industry
23 July 1998
An
exchange of letters
on the Mad Cow Disease (BSE) crisis
15 May 1998
Meeting
discusses new book on Mad Cow Disease epidemic in Britain
27 March 1998
Damning
testimony in government inquiry into BSE crisis
Human BSE/CJD:
Anatomy of a Health Disaster
A new book on BSE is widely
praised
10 February 1998
The libel action against Oprah Winfrey
US agribusiness attempts to silence debate on BSE |
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