North America BSE ban
Canada has banned brain and other potentially BSE-infected cattle tissues from all animal feed and fertiliser. A US ban will follow. Scientists have long recommended the move, which was needed to stop BSE spreading in Europe.
Autism hearing opens
Doctors who claimed to have found a link between autism and the MMR vaccine are appearing this week before a panel of the UK’s General Medical Council. The panel has until 19 October to decide whether Andrew Wakefield, John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch should be struck off the GMC register for alleged irregularities in the studies which…
