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Nature 389, 109 (11 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38074

Open Innovation Challenges

UK reaffirms commitment to independent food agency

Ehsan Masood

The UK ministry of agriculture, fisheries and food (MAFF) has strenuously denied suggestions that it is seeking to retain influence over a planned independent food standards agency. The agency has been proposed by the government in a bid to increase the separation between policy on food safety and agricultural interests, in the wake of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis.