Strategies for the control of BSE and scrapie

Journal of Food Safety

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-362

  Rogers, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EUROPE; FOOD SAFETY; PRION; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032425751     PISSN: 01496085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-4565.1998.tb00225.x     Document Type: Article

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