Brussels, 17/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has agreed to a European Commission proposal clarifying current rules on fighting BSE. Until now, the 2001 regulation stipulated that in ESB detected cases, the slaughter and destruction of all bovine and "cohort" animals infected (animals of the same age born or reared in the same herd as the BSE case). In compliance with new rules, only animals of the in infected cohort will have to be...