Brussels, 14/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - Consulted by the European Commission on measures that should be taken in case of the appearance of sheep affected by BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), the Union's Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) has just made public its preventative assessment of the risk for human health. It considers that, as we stand, the scientific community has not enough information to draw conclusions on the potential health risk, but does not rule out the risk of...