19/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - British beef was imported illegally into France from 1996 to 1998, during the period when there was a ban on exporting British meat because of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease), a police report, quoted by AFP, revealed on Friday 19 January. In February 2006, Irish and French police raided the headquarters of the Northern Irish company Vanstar Meats. Vanstar had sold British beef to French companies. Twenty people have died of...