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'Missing' report on CJD found in files



UPI / UK



CARDIFF, Wales, June 5, 2006 (UPI) -- Two copies of a report on meat tainted with mad-cow disease at Welsh schools turned up in government archives after officials said all had been lost.



The ITV program "Wales This Week" used the Freedom of Information Act to find one copy in the archives of the National Assembly's agriculture division. The other was in the files of the Carmarthenshire County Council, the Western Mail reported.



Three people died of Creuzer-Jacob disease between 1999 and 2002. All had apparently been infected years earlier from eating meat served at their schools.



The missing document was known as the Keane report after the lawyer who headed a 1990 inquiry into conditions at the slaughterhouse where meat for the schools was butchered. The investigation found that a cattle dealer had paid the slaughterhouse to use the facilities to kill diseased animals.



The National Public Health Service plans to reopen its investigation into the deaths now that the Keane report has turned up, the report said.





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