EFSA – MEAT
January 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidance on killing tapeworms and their eggs within meat. Its BIOHAZ panel says freezing pig, wild boar or cattle carcasses at -10°C or lower for 10 days or longer kills these 'cysticerci'. This "provides a basis for the prevention and control of human taeniosis" caused by tapeworms, said the panel.
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released guidance on killing tapeworms and their eggs within meat. Its BIOHAZ panel says freezing pig, wild boar or cattle carcasses at -10°C or lower for 10 days or longer kills these 'cysticerci'. This "provides a basis for the prevention and control of human taeniosis" caused by tapeworms, said the panel.
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