Brussels, 02/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - During the reading of the geographic risk assessment of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in thirteen third countries, carried out by the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), it was noted that only Brazil and Singapore (considered as countries where BSE is highly unlikely) will not be compelled to remove and destroy all specified risk materials (SRMs) if they wish to export meat to the EU.
All candidate countries whose situation was examined...