STUNNING CATTLE
September 1st, 2001
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EU's Scientific Steering Committee has opened a public consultation on the risks presented by certain stunning methods used to slaughter cattle. Some methods posed a risk of dissemination of brain particles into the blood, lungs and heart of the slaughtered animal, it said. Details of consultation at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/outcome_en.html.
THE EU's Scientific Steering Committee has opened a public consultation on the risks presented by certain stunning methods used to slaughter cattle. Some methods posed a risk of dissemination of brain particles into the blood, lungs and heart of the slaughtered animal, it said. Details of consultation at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ssc/outcome_en.html.
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