Volume 4: The Southwood Working Party, 1988-89
Index

M

MacGregor, John  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7

Maclean, David

MacOwan, Dr Kenneth

MAFF  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14

MAFF, Animal Health Division  2

MAFF, Animal Medicines Division

MAFF, announcement of formation of Working Party

MAFF, Chief Scientists Group

MAFF, Epidemiology Unit

MAFF, Food Standards Division

MAFF, Hygiene Division

MAFF, information for second meeting

MAFF, memorandum on rendering

MAFF, Minister for Food Safety

MAFF, news release after second meeting

MAFF, Notifiable Diseases Section

MAFF, Parliamentary Secretary in the Commons

MAFF, Permanent Secretary

MAFF, policy on recommendations  2

MAFF, preliminary meeting  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

MAFF, preparation of the Report  2

MAFF, regulations

management and control of BSE

manufacture of animal feed

manufacture of biologicals

manufacture of meat and bone meal

manufacture of medicinal products

manufacture of pet food

manufacturers  2

manufacturers of baby food  2,  3,  4

manufacturers of biological products  2

manufacturers of medicinal products  2,  3

manufacturers of parenteral products

manufacturers of veterinary products  2

manufacturers, advice to them on sourcing of products

manufacturers, voluntary action

manufacturing pharmaceuticals

manufacturing processes

manufacturing processes of medicinal products

marmosets

Martin, Dr William B  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

material from abroad to reduce risk

maternal transmission  2,  3,  4,  5

maternal transmission of scrapie

Matthews, Professor W B

MBM see meat and bone meal

meat  2,  3,  4

meat and bone meal (MBM)  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10

meat and transmission of BSE  2,  3

meat from scrapie-infected sheep

meat inspection

meat labelling  2

meat muscle, scrapie tests

meat of affected cattle  2

meat offcuts

meat pie industry  2

meat pies  2,  3

meat products  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9

Meat Products and Spreadable Fish Products Regulations 1984  2

Meat Products Regulations 1984

meat products, from affected animals

meat, mechanically recovered

media interest in BSE  2

media interest in BSE, lack of press interest

media reports

media, MAFF's news release after second meeting

Medical Research Council (MRC)  2,  3

medicinal products  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22,  23

medicinal products manufacturers  2,  3

Medicines Act  2

Medicines Commission

meetings  2

meetings, 14 Feb 1989  2

meetings, 1st  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

meetings, 1st, questions and answers before meeting

meetings, 1st, subsequent action

meetings, 24 Nov 1988

meetings, 2nd  2,  3

meetings, 2nd, subsequent action  2,  3

meetings, 3rd  2

meetings, 3rd, subsequent action

meetings, final  2,  3

meetings, on occupational risks

meetings, on susceptibility of babies

meetings, preliminary (19 May 1988)  2

Meldrum, Keith  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7

membership of Working Party  2,  3,  4

membership of Working Party, unpaid

mice  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

mice, scrapie agent mutations

Middlesex Hospital

milk  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

milk and scrapie  2

milk and transmission of spongiform encephalopathies

milk ban  2

milk consumption

milk destruction  2,  3,  4,  5

milk disposal

milk drinkers

milk from affected animals

milk from suspect animals  2,  3,  4

Milk Marketing Board

milk research

milk, calves receive dam's milk

milk, surface contact

milk, to calves, pigs, etc

Minister for Food Safety

Minister of Health

Ministers  2,  3

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food see MAFF

mink  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7

modelling studies  2,  3,  4

monitoring BSE

monitoring CJD cases  2,  3

monitoring health of pigs and domestic pets

monkeys  2

monoclonal antibodies

Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh  2

movement of cattle

MRC see Medical Research Council

MRC/AFRC Neuropathogenesis Unit

multiplication of scrapie agent

muscle

muscle research

muscular tissue

mushy baby food

mutant scrapie strain

mutation  2

N

national monitoring for CJD

National Radiological Protection Board

national surveys

nature of agents

nature of BSE  2,  3,  4,  5

needlestick injuries

nervous core, of animals not showing symptons

nervous tissue  2,  3,  4

Netherlands, the

neural pathways

neural tissue  2,  3

neurologists

Neuropathogenesis Unit (NPU)  2,  3

neuropathological examination

neuropathologists

new products

New Zealand

Newcastle University, Neurology Department

news release by MAFF

Newton, Antony (now Lord Newton)  2

non-mammals

Norway

notifiable disease

Notifiable Diseases Section of MAFF

notification of affected cattle

NPU (Neuropathogenesis Unit)  2,  3

nucleic acids of the agent

Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

O

occupational risks  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12

occupational surveys

occurrence of BSE  2,  3,  4,  5

offal  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19

offal and transmissibility of BSE

offal ban  2

offal in pet food

offal, sheep offal in MBM

offal, Specified Bovine Offal (SBM)

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS)

OIE

opinions of Working Party

oral evidence  2,  3,  4,  5

oral exposure

oral ingestion  2,  3

oral ingestion of medicinal products

oral ingestion of tissues from subclinically infected animals

oral transmission  2,  3

oral transmission of kuru

oral transmission of scrapie

oral transmission of TSEs

oral transmission to humans

oral transmission, medicinal products  2

Order prohibiting the sale or use of such milk

organs  2

organs rendered or incinerated

outbreak plateauing

outer-hide

owners, of sheep flocks with endemic scrapie

ox-brain  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10

Oxford

Oxford butchers

Oxford University

Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary

P

paediatricians

pancreas  2

parenteral injection  2

parenteral inoculation of spongiform encephalopathies

parenteral products  2,  3

Parliamentary Question on interim report

pasties

pastures

pastures, scrapie-infected

pathogenic variants (CJD)

pathogens  2,  3,  4

pathologists

perinatal transmission of scrapie

peripheral experimental infection, scrapie

peripheral lymph nodes

personal judgement  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

personal judgement, provisional opinion

personal judgment see also opinions of Working Party

pet food  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9

pets  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7

pharmaceutical companies

pharmaceuticals  2,  3,  4

pharmaceuticals see also medicinal products

pharmaceuticals, surface contact

Phillips, Julie

Pickles, Dr Hilary  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  30,  31

pies  2

pigs  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

pituitary gland

placenta  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

placenta, and scrapie

placenta, surface contact

plants in animal feed

plants, rendering plants

policy advice

policy decisions

policy decisions (Government)  2

policy decisions (Ministers)

policy questions

Poole, Dr David

Position Statement by the CSM and Licensing Authority

poultry  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

precautionary measures  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18

precautionary measures against scrapie

precautions, risk management

preclinical cases

preclinical multiplication of scrapie agent

preclinical scrapie  2

prenatal infection, scrapie

press see media

preventative action

primary multiplication (scrapie)

primates

prime cattle

processed food  2,  3

processed food labelling

processed meat products

processing methods of animal feed

production processes of medicinal products

products from BSE suspects

products of bovine

products, from biological materials

products, from bovine material

profit margins

protein  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

public alarm  2,  3,  4

public attitude to ox-brain

public confidence in vaccination  2

public expenditure on compensation  2

public expenditure on incineration of infective animals

public fears

public health

Public Health Group

public health implications of BSE emphasised by Working Party

public impression of health risk  2,  3,  4,  5

public opinion of milk policy

public opinion, fears about cow products

Q

Q&A briefing

questions and answers before the first meeting

R

R & D programme

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

rams

random mutation of CJD agent

rats  2

raw products of infected animals

raw sheep material

recommendation of Working Party, on milk destruction

recommendations of CSM  2

recommendations of draft report

recommendations of MAFF, on labelling  2

recommendations of scientific experts

recommendations of the Report  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

recommendations of Working Party  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14,  15,  16,  17,  18,  19,  20

recommendations of Working Party, interim  2,  3,  4

recommendations of Working Party, surveillance

recommendations, baby food recommendation

recommendations, draft

recycled animal waste  2,  3

redraft of Report

Rees, William

Regional Veterinary Officers

regulations

regulations of MAFF

regulations on baby food

regulations on labelling  2,  3

regulations on material from known affected animals entering the human food chain

remote risks  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8

rendered infected carcasses

rendered products

renderers of ruminant feed

rendering  2,  3

rendering animal waste

rendering industry  2,  3,  4

rendering industry workers

rendering of carcasses of scrapie-infected sheep

rendering organs

rendering processes  2,  3,  4,  5

rendering sheep heads

replication of scrapie agent  2

Report, agreement on contents

Report, conclusions  2

Report, draft sections before second meeting

Report, drafting

Report, likely statement on occupational risk

Report, outline for second meeting

Report, recommendations considered

Report, response

Report, Sir Richard determined on publication

Report, Sir Richard's written statement and oral evidence

Report, text agreed

Report, to be ready in 1989

Report, treatment of conclusions

reporting system

reports, interim  2,  3

research  2,  3

research after the Report

research at NPU

Research Committee  2

Research Committee see also Tyrrell Committee

research literature  2

research on spongiform encephalopathies

research priorities

research recommendation  2,  3,  4

research, coordination  2

research, current and further

research, tests

response to Report

response to Working Party

risk analysis (ALARP)  2,  3,  4

risk management

risk, reduction in pharmaceutical manufacture

risks  2,  3,  4,  5,  6

risks assessment  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12,  13,  14

risks from MBM exports

risks reduction

risks see also human health risk

risks, complacency

rodents  2

role of Working Party

routes of infection  2

routes to man of parts/products of cattle

routes to other animals

Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution  2

ruminant feed ban  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10

ruminant offal

ruminant-protein