Information resources
Publications
Articles
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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD): Update on the hazard of transmission by blood and blood products
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 76, 50. 2001 -
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD): Precautionary measures against the risk of transmission of the agent of vCJD by blood transfusion
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 75, 47. 2000 -
Human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 73, 47. 1998 -
Blood safety and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 73, 1/2. 1998 -
New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 71,16. 1996 -
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 71,15. 1996 -
"Addendum".
Weekly Epidemiological Record.Vol. 71,16. 1996
Links
- WHO Regional Office for Europe - compilation of European Commission (EC) legislation and a summary of the current situation
- Office International des Epizooties/World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
- OIE International Animal Health Code 2000- guidelines
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European and Allied Countries Collaborative Study Group of CJD
links to the international CJD surveillance system web site and to various United Kingdom governmental and advisory web sites -
BSE index -links to the European Parliament home page on BSE
discussion papers of the principal advisory committee of the European Commission on BSE, the Scientific Steering Committee -
European Commission
Food safety:from the farm to the fork - EC decisions, legislation, press releases