Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone.
But many restaurants, pubs and butchers still offer beef on the bone, particularly to their regular customers.
The Tory party tabled a motion to lift the Westminster government's ban on sales of beef on the bone.
Jeremy Bailey, 36, who farms 750-acre Ford Farm near Salisbury, Wiltshire, said he anticipated a run on beef on the bone over the Christmas period.
From a crudo of marinated salmon with ginger, shallots and cucumber granita to black angus beef with smoked bone marrow, he has a light touch but his flavors really pop.
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He said the restaurant purchases Angus beef, a British breed, and with the British government's recent lifting of a ban on beef served on the bone, the ribs are proving extremely popular with customers.
Within hours of the news, supermarkets around the country had begun to take oxtail, T-bone steak and beef ribs off their shelves.
But even the agriculture ministry's own polls show that the beef-on-the-bone ban is hugely unpopular.
And many butchers said that they would continue to sell beef-on-the-bone.
The beef-on-the-bone ban was imposed on the industry in 1997 after fears over new variant CJD, suspected of being the human form of mad cow disease.
With some butchers reporting sales of beef-on-the-bone up to 30 times normal levels in the past week, customers may well have run out of room in the deep freeze.
Many of the defeats, for example on the beef-on-the-bone regulations or the arrangements for the referendums in Scotland, Wales and London, concerned matters on which any second chamber would probably have wished the government to rethink.
Earlier in the day, First Secretary Alun Michael had vociferously defended what many perceived to be a bad start for the Assembly with the controversy over the beef-on-the-bone ban, the appointment of a vegetarian agriculture secretary and a non-Welsh speaker as Welsh language minister.
Did you know that filling a hollow "bye-bye" bone with treats such as beef jerky or cheese and giving it to your dog before you leave home can prevent so-called separation anxiety?
All you need to do is start with dry aged beef, preferably an on-the-bone cut, which is more widely available than it ever has been before.
Staff luncheons regularly include beef, some of it attached to bits of bone.
Flanken-cut beef short rib (short rib cut across the bone into half-inch thick strips you may need to ask your butcher to do this) is a wonder, but hangar steak, skirt steak, even flank steak (marinated overnight) will work well too.
But I guarantee you that we will never have an affordable, high-quality health-care system so long as individual patients and their families are incentivized to order the health-care equivalent of Kobe beef, when most would be happy with a Nebraska T-bone.
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