BSE and vCJD

French victims’ families launch suit again French and British governments and the EU. In a first move of its kind (UK litigation put on hold pending the Phillips Report), allegations by the families of Laurence Duhamel and Arnaud Eboli include ‘poisoning’, 10 years’ of inaction by French officials failing to give priority to public health, that agents of British institutions were responsible for authorising ‘the massive export of what they recognised as the main agent of contamination of their cattle population’ in continuing sales in France of animal feed containing offal after it was banned in the UK. The suit also calls for criminal investigation of the leader of the small farmers’ union for failure to take adequate measures against BSE.