TY - JOUR T1 - When food kills: BSE, <em>E coli</em> and disaster science JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 250 LP - 250 VL - 59 IS - 3 AU - Claire E Robertson Y1 - 2005/03/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/3/250.2.abstract N2 - Edited by T H Pennington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, £25.00, pp 226. ISBN 0-198-52517-6 Pennington delivers serious messages in this discursive, thought provoking book by sharing his insight into the failings of food safety (and other) inspectorates. Few have forgotten the hysteria associated with the Escherichia coli 0157 outbreak in central Scotland (linked to Barr’s butchers) or the salmonella in eggs scare when Edwina Currie was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for … ER -