Certain change in the wake of rendering aid phase-out. The loss of much more aid to the rendering industry seems to be simply transferring the costs onto the farmer or the abattoir. They in turn seem to be simply putting up the price of their product. Reports on chicken TSE from MAFF being argued. When it got there the neuropathologist 'claimed that it was not from a chicken ', 'suggested that the photographs of the brain under the microscope were not from the sample sent ', and that the sample did not have any spongiform change etc.
More argument is on the way.
15 Sept 1997 posting This is a report on the supposed nvCJD case in Southern Florida that the BBC reported on this past week. The reporters clearly got the story wrong. I talked on Thursday with Dr. Michael Gold of the University of South Florida. The suspect nvCJD patient is one of his patients as he is studying a cluster of CJD cases in Southern Florida. The CJD rate for the whole state is 15 cases a year.