Agenda

- Meeting on 6th February 2002

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1.  Chairman's introduction

2.  Approval of minutes from 21 November 2001 (52 KB) meeting

3.  Committee items

• Future plans for open meetings
• Dealing with conflicts of interest

4.  Update on VLA research

• Update on progress on validation and evaluation of Western blot at VLA
• Update on testing of archived sheep scrapie brains

5.  BSE: Autoimmune theory

6.  Overview of risks from BSE via environmental pathways

7.  Report from DEFRA workshop on sheep TSE research held on 11 and 12 December

8.  Matrix of sheep breeds and genotypes against tests conducted or to be conducted

9.  vCJD update

10. Departmental Research

• DH
• DH annual research report

• DEFRA
• FSA

11. Report from FSA open meeting on 18 December on BSE in sheep

12. Any other business

 

 

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