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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10183
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/animal diseases

Commission looking at lifting the ban on feeding bone meal to non-ruminants

Brussels, 16/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 16 July, the European Commission published its second “roadmap” on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, mad cow disease) or scrapie (in sheep and goats). In the roadmap, it contemplates changes to some of the EU rules banning the use of bone meal to feed farm animals. The Commission says “any amendment should maintain the EU's high level of protection of human and animal health and...

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