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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8979

29 June 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety
EFSA's opinion on BSE and goat meat is partly reassuring but data available must be completed to allow quantitative risk assessment

Brussels, 28/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - After the confirmation in January 2005 of a case of BSE in a goat in France, consumers should feel partially reassured by the scientific opinion recently published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concerning the safety of goat meat products. Although it is impossible to rule out all risk linked to the consumption of goat meat and goat meat products, the risk is currently very low (almost nothing for the consumption of kid meat), but...

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