BSE TESTS
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has designed a field trial for a proposed rapid BSE detection test for live animals, that could - if approved - significantly reduce the amount of culling (and associated supply and price problems) following an outbreak. EFSA's Scientific Expert Working Group on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) wants to add a rapid live test to five rapid post mortem tests. A report on the trial said: "An accurate live animal test might offer the possibility to reduce the number of culled animals after the ...
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