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Nature 413, 760 (25 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35101729

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Brain mix-up leaves BSE research in turmoil

Declan Butler

In a report that could have plunged the British meat industry back into crisis, parliament was due to receive research results this week confirming that traces of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) had been found in sheep.But at the eleventh hour, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) declared that the experiments conducted by the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) near Newbury, Berkshire, were suspect.