Volume 7: Medicines and Cosmetics
9. Consideration of an audit of the uses of cattle tissues
1992
The SEAC Interim Report on Research: 'All studies justifying a high priority have been started'

The SEAC Interim Report on Research: 'All studies justifying a high priority have been started'

9.97 The SEAC Interim Report on Research was published in April 1992. It reviewed progress on research recommended in the 1990 Tyrrell Report. Although the Report discussed pharmaceuticals, it did not mention cosmetics, other routes of transmission or other non-food uses of bovine material. The summary on page 1 stated:

As a result of the review we have concluded that all the studies justifying a high priority have been started and we are content with the progress of implementing the recommendations overall. ¹

9.98 Section 4 of the Report reviewed research in progress and now stated that 'the fate of bovine tissues has been examined in-house by MAFF' and 'was not progressing as formally commissioned pieces of work'. ²

9.99 It appears from the 1992 Interim Report that SEAC was content with the fate of proposal A1d. The issue did not surface again until 1995 in the context of a review of MAFF-funded transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) research. We briefly trace these events below.