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Web resources on TSE

The links below are to other organisations and useful web resources relating to TSE. Please note that the views and opinions expressed on the sites below do not necessarily reflect those of the VLA.

General links with TSE information

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency

• European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

• GB - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

• GB - Food Standards Agency

• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

• US Department of Agriculture

• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  
  

Specific TSE links

• European Community legislation on BSE

• Department of Health (DH) - TSE agents: Safe working and the prevention of infection

• EFSA Evaluation Report - Small Ruminant Rapid Test (pdf)

• European Union - Funded TSE Research in Europe

• European Union - Scientific Steering Committee (assisting the Commission of the European Communities)

• International Forum for TSEs and Food Safety (TAFS)

• IRMM Technical Report - Small Ruminant Rapid Test (pdf)

• OIE Publications - Risk Analysis of Prion Diseases in Animals

• Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC)

• World Health Organisation - TSE Fact sheets

Brain atlases

Michigan State University site provides a comprehensive sheep brain atlas. This website is associated with the comparative Mammalian Brain Collections at the Brain Museum site.

If you are planning to work with mice, Harvard Medical School provides a high resolution mouse brain atlas. Also see the Mouse Brain Library website.

For human studies the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah provides an interactive site of human brain.