BSE: Food for thought

The inquiry into the BSE scandal leaves us no clearer about  the future health of today's children. Maggie Jones reports The Phillips report on BSE, popularly known as 'mad cow disease', has revealed  the chain of incompetence and cover-up behind a crisis which has half destroyed the British meat industry and caused 85 people to die from new variant CJD (vCJD). But while  the majority of those who have died contracted the disease in their teens and twenties,...