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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9707

19 July 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety
EFSA publishes two opinions on BSE tests on cattle

Brussels, 18/07/2008 (Agence Europe) - Upon request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published two opinions on BSE controls (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in the EU15. The BIOHAZ biological hazards group suggests that if the tests on slaughtered cattle are carried out on cattle aged 36 or 48 months rather than 30 month, then less that a single case of BSE would be missed every year, in others words less than one infected animal would go...

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