From Maureen Norrie
There is a small error in your editorial “The legacy of BSE” (29 January, p 3). You state that “in one infamous spectacle, TV viewers watched the agriculture minister John Gummer ostentatiously feeding a beefburger to his young daughter to reassure an increasingly uneasy and sceptical public”.
In fact, what TV viewers saw was John Gummer attempting to feed his daughter a burger. The child, who seemed to know and understand the issues as well as the general public, refused to eat it. This wasn’t perhaps quite the reassurance the minister intended.
Stockton-on-Tees, UK
