SWEDEN BSE, CYPRUS SCRAPIE OUTBREAKS
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWEDEN has suffered its first BSE case, European Union (EU) scientists have confirmed, leading the European Commission to reconsider the country's exemption from standard EU requirements to test all bovines destined for human consumption. Sweden has been the only EU state with this derogation, because of its now-threatened BSE low risk status. Meanwhile EU experts are analysing the brains of two sheep from France and one from Cyprus, feared to have died from BSE, not scrapie.
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SWEDEN has suffered its first BSE case, European Union (EU) scientists have confirmed, leading the European Commission to reconsider the country's exemption from standard EU requirements to test all bovines destined for human consumption. Sweden has been the only EU state with this derogation, because of its now-threatened BSE low risk status. Meanwhile EU experts are analysing the brains of two sheep from France and one from Cyprus, feared to have died from BSE, not scrapie.
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