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Letter: Safety unproven

Published 17 November 2001

From Duncan Cross

Rejecting the possibility that milk might be contaminated with BSE
(20 October, p 60),
Jill Elsberg of the Dairy Council, supplies a typical response from a trade
association—the absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

Wolverhampton

Issue no. 2317 published 17 November 2001

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