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House
Session
Year
Department
Member
Primary member
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
Subject
Publisher
Deposited by
Department of Health
Type
Deposited papers
Author
Department of Health; Leicestershire Health Authority
Committed on
4 April 2001
Originated on
1 March 2001
Received on
4 April 2001
Subjects
Diseases; Disease control; CJD; Leicestershire; Leicestershire Health Authority; Queniborough
Commons Library location
DEP 01/569
Lords Library location
HINF 2001/1361
Date
4 April 2001
Reference
DEP 01/569
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about clusters of cases of Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. - Inc figures. (In library as Dep 01/569).
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement about clusters of cases of Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. - Inc figures. (In library as Dep 01/569).
Asked by
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
(Labour)
Answered by
Yvette Cooper
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
20 March 2001
For answer on
21 March 2001
Answered on
21 March 2001
Ms Rosie Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about clusters of cases of Variant
Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. [155227]
Yvette Cooper: Ninety-seven `definite' and `probable' cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) have been identified to
date. A number of geographically associated case groupings is under investigation, but only one such grouping has so far been
identified by the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) in July 2000 as being unlikely to have occurred by chance.
That grouping of cases occurred in an area in Leicestershire near Queniborough. A subsequent investigation by Leicestershire health
authority into these cases has been undertaken and the results are being announced in a report published today. A copy is being
placed in the Library. The main conclusion from the investigation is that there is a strong association between these cases and
cross-contamination of carcase meat with cattle brain material which occurred at a number of local butchers' premises during the
1980s.
Controls on specified risk material (SRM) have, since 1989, required brains of cattle over six months old to be removed and disposed
of under controlled conditions. It has been illegal since then for them to be used for human consumption. And, since 1996, it has
been a legal requirement for the whole head of cattle over six months old to be disposed of in the slaughterhouse as SRM under the
supervision of the Meat Hygiene Service.
Scientific advisers and health experts, including SEAC, will be looking very carefully at the results of the study, to assess the
implications for our wider understanding of vCJD.
Subjects
Diseases; Disease control; Research; CJD; Queniborough
Date
21 March 2001
Reference
155227; 365 c243W
House
House of Commons