Did UK 'dump' contaminated feed after ban?

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Data from HM Customs and Excise show that export of animal feed by UK doubled after the 1988 ban on the use of ruminant-derived protein in locally used ruminant feed. The 1990 ban on the use of specified bovine offals in feeds was not properly implemented. Feeds exported after the 1988 and 1990 ban might have been infected by the causal agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. UK continued exporting feeds to other countries after the European Community countries banned feed imports from UK.

United Kingdom, International trade, Animal feeding and feeds, Contamination, Animal wastes, Animal waste as feed

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Computing 2010: From black holes to biology

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A team from the Albert Einstein Institute and Washington University recently broke supercomputing records with a 140,000-CPU-hour run, producing nearly a terabyte of data on the 256-processor Origin2000, at the US National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).It is likely that such high-end virtual reality, modelling and visualization will be routine by 2010, with a global computing grid and access to raw computing power, dwarfing the current most powerful supercomputers.

Innovations, Computers, Digital computers

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Transplant panel to play 'honest broker.'

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A meeting to take place in Meech Lake, Quebec, Canada, in Jun 1999 and uniting more than 12 xenotransplant experts, non-governmental organizations and ethicists will seek to identify new ways of stimulating public debate about xenotransplantation. It is anticipated that the meeting will call for an international panel on xenotransplantation. The organizers of the meeting also hope to be able to establish a broader international think-tank.

Ethical aspects, Xenotransplantation

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