She was put in charge of consumer and food safety in the wake of the mad-cow debacle.
Doctors in Kentucky say eating squirrel brains is linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (better known as mad-cow disease).
In this era of self-conscious foraging and mad-scientist dining, simplicity can seem like the biggest luxury of all.
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Maybe mad-cow disease and its human analogues are merely the unfortunate by-products of some crucial, but as yet unperceived, mechanism.
And this came against a backdrop of the mad-cow disease scare in the US, which put many consumers off eating beef.
BSE, or mad-cow disease, no longer posed a problem, though Germany disagreed.
Clever and inventive in a cackling, manic, mad-professor kind of way, yes.
Since ministers flatly denied there was any danger to people from mad-cow disease, Britain's government and press have been jumpy about public health.
The extinction of elephants, the threat of mad-cow disease, outbreaks of the Ebola virus, and chemicals that mimic sex hormones are all fashionable.
In the wake of mad-cow disease, many student cafeterias and even a few mid-priced restaurants are joining gourmets in the switch to organic fare.
Mad-cow disease is clearly no respecter of national boundaries: cattle and cattle-feed are traded (and cows sometimes actually walk) across borders in the Union.
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But some patients are too allergic to tolerate the stuff, and others too squeamish, in the wake of mad-cow disease, to want it under their skin.
Some weeks ago, the government's scientists advised it that the deadly human equivalent of mad-cow disease might be transmitted through beef bones, although the risks were tiny.
Japan is especially reluctant to do so, as was illustrated by a recent spat over American beef, in which fears of mad-cow disease strengthened the hands of protectionists.
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Last year she snapped up a new brief for food safety, created after the commission found itself embarrassingly ill equipped to deal with the problems of mad-cow disease.
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He plays, ever so lustily, Mad-Eye Moody, Hogwarts' latest Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, who wears an eye patch with an eerily roving eye set into the patch.
Here's the catch: To ramp the chip up to that wild speed, testers had to pour liquid Nitrogen and liquid Helium on top of it, in a sort of mad-scientist experiment.
Other plot points fans are concerned about being translated "correctly" include the emotional death scenes of Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig, Harry Potter's beloved owl, as well as the professor Snape backstory.
Most European countries already have mad-cow controls in place.
British intelligence were very measured and detached, and they didn't think the Russians, because they were rational people - Khrushchev was impulsive but he wasn't mad - would ever do it deliberately.
"Anyone who wouldn't be pleased would be mad - I'm honoured and delighted, " said the star of such films as Trouble in Store (1953), Just My Luck (1957) and The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968).
"If I'd gone against the medical experts, people would have thought I was mad - or, worse in my position - trying to do the dirty on one of the clubs, " he told French newspaper L'Equipe.
Vaccines are developed for polio, TB, AIDS, bird-flu and mad-cow type epidemics and pandemics that periodically threaten to envelop the world, with the feared trends actually resulting not in annihilation of the human species, but in an improvement in life expectancies.
The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people) will post first-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street expectations, largely because mad-cow, a degenerative neurological disease that can infect humans who eat tainted beef, has scared Europeans away from the company's beef.
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