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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7852

30 November 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/mad cow
Scientific Steering Committee considers national embargo measures not scientifically justified and recommends temporary ban on all bone meal

Brussels, 29/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The national partial or total embargo measures on French beef adopted by Spain, Austria and Italy with a view to containing the new mad cow crisis are not scientifically justified. The effective implementation of the ban on bone meal in animal feed, sound rendering practices and the withdrawal of high specified risk material from the animal food chain in import and export countries would probably make the need to resort to trade restrictions obsolete....

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