BEEF
June 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SCIENTIFIC Steering Committee of the European Union has advised the European Commission that cattle aged over one year bear a low risk of BSE infection provided existing feed bans continue to be properly enforced. The advice opens the way to loosen the EU's insistence on the removal of vertebrae from these older cattle.
THE SCIENTIFIC Steering Committee of the European Union has advised the European Commission that cattle aged over one year bear a low risk of BSE infection provided existing feed bans continue to be properly enforced. The advice opens the way to loosen the EU's insistence on the removal of vertebrae from these older cattle.
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