Brussels, 05/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - During a conference held on Thursday in Brussels on the perception of risk in food, the Commissioner for health and consumer protection, David Byrne, stressed the importance of keeping the public correctly informed of real dangers incurred during food crises of the BSE or atypical pneumonia kind in order to prevent movements of panic and irrational behaviour. The mad cow crisis gave rise to major boycotting of beef and veal by consumers to the great...