Perspective: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy risk assessment: The UK experience

Risk Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 519-532

  Grist, Eric P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

BSE; Mad cow disease; Model assumptions; Quantitative risk assessment; Uncertainty; vCJD

Indexed keywords

DISEASES;

MAD COW DISEASE; MODEL ASSUMPTIONS; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; VCJD;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BOVINAE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23644434731     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00619.x     Document Type: Review

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