Public needs BSE facts
- Title
- Public needs BSE facts
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 20 Mar 1996
- Year of production
- 1996
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- Duration
- 00:01:04
- Description
- House of Commons statement by shadow Health Secretary Harriet Harman, on a fall in public confidence in the wake of the BSE outbreak. Says that the public need the full facts and honest advice. Makes a reference to John Gummer, the minister who fed his young daughter a beefburger to demonstrate the safety of British meat.
- Further information
- http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960320/debtext/60320-23.htm
- Contributors
- Harriet Harman
- Keywords
- Health; Meat; Beef; Illness; John Gummer; Transmission; CJD; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Animal products; BSE; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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LBC/IRN, "Public needs BSE facts". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0002500496034 (Accessed 08 Jun 2025)