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Nature 410, 867-868 (19 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35073692
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Academic Surgical Pathologists GI / Breast / GYN
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- University of East Anglia
- Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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Eileen Rubery1
- Eileen Rubery is at Cambridge University Health, Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. She headed the protection of health division in the public health group of the Department of Health until July 1999. She was an independent expert member of the FSA review team for the BSE controls review. She is an expert adviser to the FSA and to other UK government departments from time to time.
How can hygienic, safe, food-animal husbandry most effectively be combined with modern farming practices? Widespread public concern over genetically modified foods, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and other safety issues are being thrown even more sharply into relief by the present foot-and-mouth disease epidemic which started in the United Kingdom, but is having significant repercussions for the rest of Europe.
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