`If we found BSE in sheep it would be a national emergency'. Official. Only nine sheep in 20,000,000 have been fully tested for BSE. So far

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 8, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

THE GOVERNMENT has launched a damage limitation exercise to quell fears over the possibility that British sheep might have become infected with BSE.

Government press officers have been issued with a set of 16 questions and answers to rebut claims that British lamb is unsafe to eat, and that not enough is being done to assess the risk of BSE entering the sheep population.

Such is the concern about another food scare that Government officials planned their rebuttal campaign last week when they became aware of a forthcoming article in the journal Nature which highlighted scientific fears over BSE ...

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