Consultative Committee on Research into Spongiform Encephalopathies

The Consultative Committee was established in 1989 following a recommendation from Sir Richard Southwood's Working Party which advised the Government on the implications of BSE in relation to both animal health and possible human hazards. Tyrrell chaired the Committee, and it was often referred to as the Tyrrell Committee.

The purpose of the Committee was to review the potential health hazards to humans of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and to advise the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Health on research on BSE.

Correspondence mostly regards the "Interim Report of the Consultative Committee on Research into Spongiform Encephalopathies" (1989), which was compiled to advise the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Department of Health on needs and priorities in the research on transmissable spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).

Also includes minutes and meeting papers of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Working Party. The Working Party was established by the Committee on Safety of Medicines to carry forward the findings of the Southwood Report, and to advise on the implications of BSE with regard to human medicinal products.

1988-1990

6 files

Papers of the Committee used as evidence in the BSE Inquiry can be found in PP/TYR/D/3.