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Nature 407, 932 (26 October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35039687
UK ministry under fire over handling of BSE research
David Dickson
Britain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was accused this week of hindering research into bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) — mad cow disease — during the 1980s.Maitland Mackie, former chairman of the animals committee of the then Agricultural and Food Research Council, said that MAFF awarded BSE-research grants to scientific "novices" working in its own laboratories, rather than to those in independent institutions with long experience in related areas.
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