1.   However, there is no scientific proof that the disease can be spread by eating contaminated beef.

2.   And at least one food industry executive says he saw an increase this year in contaminated beef.

3.   All meat and bone meal is also being banned from pig and poultry feed to lower the risk of contaminated beef spreading further into the human food supply.

4.   Cats in England have been infected through pet food made from contaminated beef.

5.   Givens said the family is pained by the irony that McCall, who ate no meat, would die from a disease most often transmitted through contaminated beef.

6.   Heino Diringer, a biochemist and virologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, believes humans CAN contract CJD from eating contaminated beef.

7.   Last year, scientists reported that the disease might have spread to people in England, perhaps through contaminated beef.

8.   Some experts think there is a link between the contaminated beef and a fatal brain ailment in humans.

9.   The American Meat Institute claims it is only trying to protect consumers from dangerously contaminated beef, but it has chosen an odd way to do so.