Latest Mad Cow Update - it does not matter how Seible and others down-play this - it is not going away and 'Officials' in the States are having to disclose more and more in order to keep some sort of lid on it. Meat from the infected carcass went to Oregon, California, Nevada and Washington. The latest admission is that meat processed from this abbatoir on the same day (with the presumption of some cross-contamination) went to Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Idaho and the territory of Guam. At the end of the day it is the perception of catastrophe that plays on peoples minds and not the magnitude of the problem - who will ever forget the scenes of 2300 losing their lives on 9/11 but who in a year's time will reflect on upwards of 23000 lives snuffed out in Bam as we tuck into our beef festivities?
Learned posters have pointed to the potential for links between careless practices, gelatin use, BSE and vCJD and this will swirl around the consciousness of the great and the good in many a giant pharma in the coming months.