BSE ERADICATION RULES
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA PERMANENT shift away from former draconian rules insisting on culling a whole herd containing cattle with BSE has been confirmed by the European Union (EU) approving a new regulation demanding only the slaughter of a cohort related to an infected animal. Most EU member countries have already shifted to cohort-killing anyway, through a special derogation from the herd-cull rule, but the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health has now made this permanent. It also defined cohorts as referring to animals linked by "birth and ...
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