EFSA WARNS OF BSE FISH FEED RISK
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIAL tests have been requested by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), using new techniques to assess whether BSE could spread to cattle from fish-feed via meat-reared farmed fish. EFSA's Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards has concluded risks of TSE in fishmeal "could arise from the mammalian feed being fed to this fish or through fishmeal contaminated by meat and bone meal (MBM)." Although unlikely, a "combination of different tests now allow better detection and differentiation of MBM up to the species level".
SPECIAL tests have been requested by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), using new techniques to assess whether BSE could spread to cattle from fish-feed via meat-reared farmed fish. EFSA's Scientific Panel on Biological Hazards has concluded risks of TSE in fishmeal "could arise from the mammalian feed being fed to this fish or through fishmeal contaminated by meat and bone meal (MBM)." Although unlikely, a "combination of different tests now allow better detection and differentiation of MBM up to the species level".
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