Thumbs-up today for beef on the bone
30 November 1998
Thumbs-up today for beef on the bone
By FWi staff
ANY possible health risk from eating beef on the bone has diminished considerably, the Government will announce today (Monday).
The news will come as a much-needed boost for the beef industry and fuel recent speculation that T-bone steaks could soon make a return to the nations dinner-plates.
Beef on the bone was banned by former agriculture minister Jack Cunningham last December.
The Governments scientific advisers told Dr Cunningham that humans eating beef on the bone were at risk of contracting a new variant of Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, the human form of BSE.
But the latest report from the Governments scientific advisors will reveal that the risk from eating T-bone steak and beef ribs has diminished in line with the decline of BSE.