There are many views and opinions on topics like this, often coloured by the personal beliefs of the authors. The debate is usually healthy, and it is important to realise that the investigations are ongoing, and that some of the information posted, often in good faith, may now have been revised.
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- Mad Cow Disease Resource dedicated to BSE, scrapie, CJD, and other prion diseases. Coverage of news, prion molecular biology and research developments. Color slides of spongiform brains.
- Food and Drug Administration: All About BSE (Mad Cow Disease) Resources providing general background, consumer information, recent FDA actions, veterinarian information, blood safety and news from the FDA, Rockville, Maryland.
- WHO: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathies (BSE) Official reports on transmissiblity to human and other animal from the World Health Organisation.
- American Meat Institute Factsheet: BSE AMI offers information about BSE and beef safety in question and answer format, dated October 2008.
- Mad Cow Disease in Humans Mary Kugler, RN answers safety questions surrounding children and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
- USDA BSE Information United States Department of Agriculture offers updates on mad cow disease.
- Science Reference Section Library of Congress Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease - links to information.
- UK DEFRA BSE Information Includes much of the relevant history, actions, legislation and medical statistics.
- USDA: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Reource for technical review from the Food Safety Research Information Office, maintained in Beltsville, Maryland.
- IFST: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopath Information statement from the Institute of Food Science and Technology, and updates about other prion diseases.