Item No	Time	Item	Presenter	Paper No.
1	10:30	Chairman's introduction	Professor P. Smith
2	10:40	vCJD: - number of cases - geographically associated cases	James Ironside David Salisbury	71/11
3	11:15	Scrapie brain pool experiments. Update on current position and audits of the samples.	Mandy Bailey	71/1
4	11:30	Review of SEAC's past recommendations on sheep since 1996.	Mandy Bailey	71/2
5	13:00	Update on genotyping of sheep under the National Scrapie Plan.	Noel Cleary	71/3
	13:30	LUNCH
6	14:15	Ongoing research: - Testing of individual sheep scrapie brains - VLA Western blot results on sheep scrapie brains. - Way ahead and what further needs to be done.	Hilary Gates Mike Stack, VLA Peter Smith	71/4 71/5 71/6
7	15:15	Planned surveillance: - EU testing programme - Abattoir survey	Peter Soul	71/7
8	16:00	FSA issues: - Sheep risk assessments, areas of weakness in data. - FSA reviews of the precautionary measures and current research into BSE in sheep. - Baby food and the advice given by SEAC in 1996 on the relative susceptibility of babies to vCJD.	Philip Comer David Carruthers Alan Harvey David Carruthers Martin Brueton	71/10
9	17:00	Risk assessment on theoretical BSE risk from burning and burial of shep as a result of foot and mouth disease.	Philip Comer	71/8
10	17:15	Committe business: - Future plans for open meetings. - Proposal to alter the way minutes and public summaries are produced.	Lucy Harbron	71/9
11	17:30	AOB

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List of attendees

Members:

Professor Adriano Aguzzi
Professor Roy Anderson
Professor Chris Bostock
Mr Ray Bradley
Professor Robin Carrell
Professor John Collinge
Dr Deirdre Cunningham
Professor James Ironside
Mr Peter Jinman
Dr Jiri Safar
Professor Colin Masters
Professor Ian McConnell
Professor Peter Smith (Chair)

Secretariat:

Dr Mandy Bailey - Secretary (Defra)

Dr Lucy Harbron (Defra)
Mr Doug Wood (Defra)
Mr Howard Needham (Defra)
Mr Samuel Donkor (Defra)

Mr Alan Harvey - Secretary (DH)

Dr Antonia Leigh (DH)
Mr Martin Hall (DH)

Mr David Carruthers - Secretary (FSA)

Dr Irene Hill (FSA)

Technical advisors:

Mr Peter Soul (Defra)
Dr Hilary Gates (Defra)

Dr John Stephenson (DH)
Dr Nicky Connor (DH)

Dr Steve Dixon (FSA)
Miss Adrienne Conroy (FSA)

Observers:

Dr Debbie Reynolds (FSA)
Dr K Finney (MRC)
Dr Avril Allman (BBSRC)
Dr Mark Kibblewhite (EA)
Dr Mike Simmons (NAW)
Dr Nick Coulson (SD)
Mrs Lorraine Shepherd (HSE)
Professor Cecil McMurray (DARDNI)
Dr Stuart Baxter (SEERAD)

Other attendees:

Dr Mike Stack (VLA)
Dr David Salisbury (DH)
Mr Paul Huntley (DNV Consulting)
Mr Philip Comer (DNV Consulting)
Mr Richard Ayre (FSA board)
Mr Michael Walker (FSA board)
Ms Carolyn Coote
Dr Martin Brueton (Consultant Paediatric Gastro-enterologist)
Mr Noel Cleary (Defra)
Dr Lincoln Tsang (MCA)
Dr Mike Kavanagh (MCA)

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