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She was attending a meeting of European health ministers in Brussels, where the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGerman/Eng/Nat \u003cbr/\u003eBritain's Public Health Minister, Tessa Jowell, on Thursday defended the government's decision to ban the sale of all beef on the bone.   \u003cbr/\u003eShe was attending a meeting of European health ministers in Brussels, where the German delegate supported the move but called for a Europe-wide policy.  \u003cbr/\u003eBeef traders at Smithfield, Britain's best-known meat market, said they fear the ban will lead to renewed concern among consumers and heavy losses to the beef trade.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the face of fierce criticism from U-K farmers and meat traders, Tessa Jowell, U-K Health Minister, defended the government's decision to ban the sale of beef on the bone.\u003cbr/\u003eThe decision was prompted by scientific advice that material contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or \"mad cow disease\", could reach the human food chain through bone marrow.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Tessa Jowell, UK Health Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I will be setting out the reasons for our decision today to other European health ministers, making it absolutely clear that it is our determination to put the public health first and to protect the consumer on the basis of scientific evidence.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: U-K Health Minister\u003cbr/\u003eThe German delegate fully supported the U-K government's latest directive on \"mad cow disease\", but said that if Europe-wide policies were not adopted, this would be a futile gesture.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (German)\u003cbr/\u003e\" In a single market effective measures can only be achieved when in all the member states identical measures are taken.  It is meaningless to do something isolated in your own country. We've seen how difficult it is to fully eliminate fraud across Europe, even when all member states have the same rules and controls.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Horst Seehofer, German Health minister\u003cbr/\u003eMeat traders were bracing themselves for a heavy fall in demand after Wednesday's announcement.\u003cbr/\u003eMost British supermarkets have already taken t-bone steaks, oxtail and spare ribs off their shelves.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Smithfield traders remain defiant, and were still selling them on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough such products only account for 5-per cent of the beef market, traders feel the ban is likely to further damage the already fragile consumer confidence in beef.\u003cbr/\u003eMany believe the ban is unfair.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Meat has been going on for years and years and years and they (the Government) turn around and tell us that they have controlled it, they have got it ( B-S-E ) down, they're getting us to kill our cattle that's only 30 months old. So what else do you want, they have put the guidelines down, now they're moving the goalposts. What else do they want to do, ban beef altogether?\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Derek Wood, meat trader.\u003cbr/\u003eSome feel that it is too late to take action, and we should have taken early drastic measures as Irish farmers did.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I just think it's too little too late, if the Tories hadn't been the cheap S-O-B's that they were, and had just done what the Irish did and slaughtered every herd when they  discovered one animal we wouldn't be where we are now\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Customer at Smithfield   \u003cbr/\u003eJust yards from the market, traders were drowning their sorrows at the local pub. Drinkers remain defiant and want to defend their standards.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think it's a tragedy for British meat actually, because everybody knows that the British beef industry is the best in the world. And to cut it off the bone now when it's clearing up, when it's clearing up, is unbelievable. When the British beef industry is renowned. I feel sorry for the poor farmers in England.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dennis Appleby, meat trader. \u003cbr/\u003eBut many traders say they are over the worst scares and believe they will survive the latest ban and change their methods in order to please their customers.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, they got through it last time, I should think they'll get through it this time. They'll just have to change the way they cut it and sell it (the meat), that sort of thing, But I should think they'll get over it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Colin Longford, Meat trader.\u003cbr/\u003eThe latest scare follows government announcements last year showing mounting evidence of a link between the brain wasting disease B-S-E (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) and a new strain of its human equivalent C-J-D (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, U.K.,Brussels, Belgium - 4th December, 1997\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide exterior of Smithfield Market zoom into Port of London Authority sign. \u003cbr/\u003e2. Pull out from mid shot to wide shot of Smithfield Market interior.\u003cbr/\u003e3. Two set up shots Tessa Jowell, UK Public Health Minister \u003cbr/\u003e4.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Tessa Jowell, UK Public Health Minister\u003cbr/\u003e5. Set up shot German press conference \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (German) Horst Seehofer, German Health Minister \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot interior market.\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of packaged beef pan to trader.\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of meat trucks.\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE:(English) Derek Wood, meat trader.\u003cbr/\u003e11. Entrance to market\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE:(English) Customer at Smithfield\u003cbr/\u003e13. Pan from Smithfield to meat trader's pub.\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide inside pub.\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid shot of drinkers.\u003cbr/\u003e16  SOUNDBITE:(English) Dennis Appleby, meat trader.\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of trader reading newspaper.\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close-up of newspaper headline - 'What the Hell CAN we eat?'\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE:(English) Colin Longford, Meat trader.\u003cbr/\u003e20. Pan of interior of pub though the window.\u003cbr/\u003e21. 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