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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the relative risk of contracting new variant CJD from (a) cross-contamination between patients from hospital surgical instruments used in tonsilectomies and appendectomies and (b) eating beef on the bone. - Inc ref to views of...

Asked by

Alan Duncan (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 October 1998

For answer on

29 October 1998

Answered on

29 October 1998

Mr. Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the relative risk of contracting new variant CJD from (a) cross- contamination between patients from hospital surgical instruments used in tonsillectomies and appendectomies and (b) eating beef on the bone. [57200] Ms Jowell: After careful consideration of the case in which the abnormal prion protein associated with new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) was detected in the appendix of a patient who had subsequently died of the disease, the Joint Working Group of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) and the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) concluded that given all the circumstances surrounding the use of surgical instruments the risk to other patients was minimal. SEAC has subsequently reviewed the implications of this incident for the risks generally of transmission of nvCJD through surgical instruments. The Committee concluded that because so little is known about the infective agent further studies were needed before a definitive assessment of risk could be undertaken. Our decision to ban the sale of beef on the bone was taken in the light of advice from SEAC and taking account of the views of the Chief Medical Officer. This advice, together with the Government's response, is published, and copies are available in the Library. The very limited information about risks in either case means that it is not possible to make any meaningful comparison of the risk of contracting nvCJD through contaminated surgical instruments and eating beef on the bone.

Date

29 October 1998

Reference

318 c294-5W; 57200

House

House of Commons

Statement on advice HMG have received from Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) on link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and implications for children

Lead member

Stephen Dorrell

Department

Department of Health

Type

Ministerial statements

Date

25 March 1996

Reference

274 c710-23

House

House of Commons

Lords statement on advice HMG have received from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) on link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and implications for children

Lead member

Baroness Cumberlege

Department

Department of Health

Type

Ministerial statements

Date

25 March 1996

Reference

570 c1483-92

House

House of Lords

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