Brussels, 04/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - To improve efforts to combat bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease" and to reduce European citizens' risks of contracting the new variant of Kreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the Commission made a proposal on Wednesday for regulation of the use of specified risk materials (SRM) in the human and animal food chain in the Union. These materials include tissues of cattle, sheep and goats, such as brain, spinal cord, intestines, spleen, etc. in...