Nutrition expert Boyd Swinburn says assurances about milk safety by New Zealand officials remind him of the British government’s approach to mad cow disease.
In an interview with The Press yesterday, the Melbourne professor of nutrition sciences said the smoothing-over of concerns about mad cow disease in Britain 20 years ago was “another example” of science taking on big business and a government, and losing.
Swinburn was commissioned by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) in 2003 to write a report on A1 and A2 milk safety.
His conclusions that the A1/A2 health issue was “potentially very important for population health” and should be researched further were subsequently spun by the NZFSA to say “there is no evidence that either (A1 or A2) milk poses a food safety issue”.
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