If you can't see the right information gets onto the right piece of paper, you will defeat any international system. Bans will come Frankly, if MAFF carry on the way they are going, we will finish up with British agricultural products banned from many of the world's markets. In some countries it comes down to bribeable officials and illicit printing presses. Here it is a mixture of incompetence and arrogance. The effect is much the same.
Power is just as corrupting as cash.
It might be Aberdeen Angus that gets the ban abroad. It is time to start asking just who is calling the shots and helping to do something about it. The evidence given in the Phillips' 17 volume report on MAFF's handling of BSE was damning. The conclusions, despite being thought by many commentators to be quite kind to MAFF, are still damning. The government's response, published last week see BBC Report makes interesting reading.