EFSA WARNS AGAINST SHEEP AND GOAT SLAUGHTERING PLANS
July 1st, 2008 BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned against European Commission draft plans to raise the age of sheep and goats that can be slaughtered from scrapie infected flocks from three months to six months, with all internal organs from the chest and abdominal cavities removed, compared to the present 3 months of age (with just the spleen and ileum removed). The agency said there was insufficient data to clear the move and moreover there was evidence that scrapie infectivity in the lymph nodes of sheep and goats could increase between ...
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