EFSA – TALLOW
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) expert panel has accepted studies claiming that the use of tallow in meat production poses a minimal risk of passing BSE-based diseases onto humans. Its scientific panel on biological hazards noted an unrealistic worst-case scenario involving human exposure to tallow made from a mix of tissues with no specified risk material removed from cattle in a highly infected country with unreliable surveillance. Such exposure would be 48,000 times less than the exposure to the UK population during the BSE epidemic in ...
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