Television news compilation.

Sections from the ITV News at 10 and BBC Newsnight following the announcement from the Government that Mad Cow Disease is contracted from eating beef. The News at 10 section shows footage of the CJD Surveillance Unit at Edinburgh and notes the new measures cited by the Government: tougher rules on slaughter of cattle, 4.5 million pounds to be spent on research, and a ban of all meat in farm animal feed. The report also raises concerns for the beef industry, with sales already falling. The Newsnight section centres around a discussion between Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell, Chair of the Government Advisory Committee Professor John Pattison, Frances Hall, whose son Peter recently died of CJD and Diane McCrea of the Consumers Association.