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A MOUNTAIN of rotting "mad cow" waste is still piling up in secret dumps - more than five years after the Daily Mirror warned of the dangers.
The number of BSE dumps has increased from 10 to 15 and more of the potentially deadly waste is stored than in 1997.
It will cost pounds 120million to clear the backlog and take at least two years.
But experts say the present system of burning the waste at four incinerators is useless.
A total of 113 people have died from new variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, and more are expected to die.
Professor Richard Lacey, former head of microbiology at Leeds University, told the Mirror: "The only safe way to burn the...