The inquiry into Britain’s BSE epidemic, set up in 1997, will not deliver its
report until April next year. This is the second postponement of the report,
which was originally supposed to be published in December 1998. “The scale of
the information is the problem. We didn’t think there would be this much,” says
a spokeswoman.
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