Brussels, 24/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Following the premature death of a five-year-old cow in a farm in the Ardennes, France, suspicions were confirmed by the EU reference laboratory on Wednesday 23 March that the animal had contracted bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the French Agriculture Ministry said in a press release on Thursday 24 March.
This is the first case of BSE detected in France since 2011. In May of 2015, France regained its status as a country at negligible risk of...