BSE INVENTORY

BY KEITH NUTHALLA LACK of coordination amongst EU Member States' research teams regarding the study of BSE has been revealed by a new European inventory of previous work and that in progress, collated by the European Commission.It has highlighted areas where better links between national research programmes is required. These included epidemiological surveillance, animal models and cell lines, collection and provision of well-characterised samples, quality assurance for the validation of diagnostics tests, best practices in abattoir techniques and waste ...


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