Volume 6: Human Health, 1989-96
Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 The slaughter and compensation scheme
   Introduction
   Introduction of the slaughter and compensation scheme
   The operation of the slaughter and compensation scheme
   The increase in the level of compensation under the slaughter and compensation scheme
   Further changes in the slaughter and compensation scheme
   Annex 1 to Chapter 2: Schedule of BSE Compensation Orders (Suspected and Affected Animals) Part A: Orders in Great Britain
   Annex 1 to Chapter 2: Schedule of BSE Compensation Orders (Suspected and Affected Animals) Part B: Orders in Northern Ireland
   Annex 2 to Chapter 2: Cattle slaughtered and compensation paid 1988-96

3 Introduction of the ban on Specified Bovine Offal
   Introduction
   Overview of events in 1989
   Events leading up to the publication of the Southwood Report on 27 February 1989
   Publication of the Report
   Discussion of the extent of the Government review of the Southwood Report
   Consideration of baby food and cull cows
   External pressures
   Further developments leading to the decision to ban SBO in all human food
   Discussion of what was said about the reasons for the ban
   Preparation of the SBO Regulations
   Discussion on the preparation of the Regulations

4 Human health developments:January - December 1990
   Introduction
   Overview of the events of 1990
   Food safety initiatives by Mr Gummer
   Creation of the Animal Health and Veterinary Group (AHVG)
   Red meat and the protection of public health
   General aspects of the SBO ban in 1990
   Concerns during 1990 about brain removal
   Slaughterhouse practices and MRM
   EC Commission Decision 90/261/EEC (beef-on-the-bone and nervous and lymphatic tissue)
   Intensification of public concerns about the safety of beef during 1990

Annex 1 to Chapter 4: Unfit meat and human food
   Protections against unfit meat entering the human food chain prior to 1982
   Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations 1982 (the 1982 MSSR)
   CIEH criticisms of the system
   Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) (Amendment) Regulations 1984
   The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989
   The animal SBO ban
   The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 1991

5 Human health developments: 1 January 1991 to 31 March 1995
   Introduction
   Hygiene standards and enforcement arrangements in slaughterhouses between 1991 and March 1995
   The background to the proposal for a national system of meat hygiene
   Implementation of precautionary measures in relation to BSE
   Developments in knowledge and understanding about BSE from 1991 to 31 March 1995
   Government pronouncements, media concerns and public reaction

6 Events from 1 April to 31 December 1995: human health returns to the agenda
   Introduction
   The Meat Hygiene Service (MHS)
   Slaughterhouse surveillance
   MRM
   Developing knowledge on BSE and CJD
   Pronouncements and publicity in relation to BSE from various quarters

Annex 1 to Chapter 6: Spinal cord in bovine carcasses

7 Human health developments from January 1996 to 20 March 1996
   Introduction
   Minister's questions
   Discussion
   The SEAC meeting of 5 January 1996
   Communication to MAFF and DH of concerns expressed at SEAC meeting on 5 January 1996
   Discussion
   Two further cases in people under 30 years of age confirmed
   The response to the reports of the January meeting
   The response to the reports of the February meeting
   The storm breaks

8 Development of guidance on occupational risks from BSE and other TSEs
   Introduction
   Early 1980s
   1988
   1989
   The HSE BSE Working Group and the CDTFZ meetings
   1990
   1991
   1992
   1993
   1994
   1995
   1996
   Guidance produced by ACDP
   Discussion
   Annex 1 to Chapter 8: Organisation of HSE
   Annex 2 to Chapter 8: Membership and, where available, terms of reference of relevant HSE Committees and Working Groups
   HSE BSE Working Group (June 1989-May 1990)
   Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) (1981-present)
   Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens Working Group on SEs (ACDP Working Group) (February 1991-March 1993)
   Appendix to Annex 2: Key players and membership of committees and working groups
   Annex 3 to Chapter 8: Alphabetical list of occupations at risk and guidance produced
   Annex 4 to Chapter 8: Health and safety guidance production and sources

9 Bovine eyeball dissection
   Introduction
   Consideration of the risks associated with bovine eyeball dissection: a chronology
   Discussion

10 Pollution control and waste management
   Introduction
   Disposal of BSE carcasses and SBO: a chronological account
   Thruxted Mill
   Spreading blood on land
   Discussion

Glossary

Who's who

Index