BSE-LIKE SHEEP DISEASE EFSA TESTS INCONCLUSIVE
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TESTS carried out by the European Union's (EU) reference laboratory in Weybridge, England, onto three sheep that died with suspected with BSE-like symptoms have not proved the disease has effectively jumped species from bovine livestock. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that one test - called the 'discriminatory western blot' - suggested that the two French and one Cypriot sheep did die from a BSE-like disease, but two other tests had different results. One, on the French sheep, suggested they died of scrapie, and another - one the ...
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