Brussels, 14/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The EU's Standing Veterinary Committee (SVC) has voted in favour of an amendment to the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies regulation (TSE). The total number of tests on goat and sheep per year in the European Union will be increased from 164,000 to 560,000 as from 1 April 2002 with the aim of getting a better view of how the disease is progressing, particularly for scrapie, since the risk of BSE being present in sheep and goats has still not...