EFSA DEMANDS DETAILED PROBES INTO BSE FISH RISK
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLSPECIAL tests have been requested by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), using new techniques to assess whether BSE could spread to cattle from fish-feed from meat-reared farmed fish. EFSA's Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards was asked to investigate after the European Parliament resisted lifting a European Union (EU) ban on feeding fish-feed to ruminants. This was imposed because of past difficulties in assessing whether BSE could be carried by fish-feed, but technology has now improved. To inform the argument, the panel considered the ...
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