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Latest BSE News
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Safety expert calls for end to BSE cattle culls UK - A leading food safety expert has called for an end to cattle culling rules imposed to reduce the risk of BSE, which he claims are redundant and a waste of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money. Professor Hugh Pennington, a world-renowned expert...
Monday, November 08, 2004
Safety expert calls for end to BSE cattle culls UK - A leading food safety expert has called for an end to cattle culling rules imposed to reduce the risk of BSE, which he claims are redundant and a waste of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money. Professor Hugh Pennington, a world-renowned expert...
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
BSE and offspring cull compensation UK - Revised compensation rates applicable to the BSE and offspring cull compensation schemes effective for the month of November 2004 are in the following table. Compensation payable for an animal slaughtered because it is suspected of being affected...
Friday, October 22, 2004
UK beef restrictions 'must end' UK - The government must do more to end "outrageous" restrictions on the export of British beef, the Conservatives say. The UK no longer has the highest amount of BSE in Europe but it is the only country with limitations on exports. A ban ended five...
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
U.K. Health Office Says Prevalence of Mad Cow May Have Peaked UK - There's statistically significant evidence that the U.K.'s mad-cow disease epidemic may have peaked, the country's Department of Health said. Source: Bloomberg
EU ban on British beef could be lifted UK - EU embargo measures on British beef could be lifted next year, following a sharp fall in recorded cases of mad cow disease in Britain, according to a European Commission report. "A proposal to lift the UK embargo might be envisaged in 2005," said...
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Failures let cattle slip through BSE safety net, agency finds UK - A series of failures allowed cattle into the human food chain without being tested for BSE, an investigation by the Food Standards Agency has found. The FSA started an inquiry in June after it emerged that "casualty" cattle - sick or injured animals...
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
QMS chief calls on ministers to lift beef export restrictions UK - The government was yesterday urged to begin unwinding the over 30 months scheme, which has prevented more than six million older cattle from entering the food chain since the BSE crisis of March 1996. Jim Walker, the chairman of Quality Meat Scotland,...
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
FSA appoints independent experts for inquiry into BSE test errors UK - The UK’s Food Standards Agency has announced the appointment of an independent steering group to oversee an inquiry into recent failures to test some cattle for BSE. Earlier this month, the FSA announced an investigation into an apparent failure...
Monday, June 14, 2004
Disease is not a new form of BSE UK - A new brain disease has emerged to threaten cattle, DEFRA has confirmed. But department officials have scotched fears that the disease is a new form of BSE. Press articles this week (w/e June 11) raised concerns of a "new and mysterious brain disease"...
Monday, June 07, 2004
Agency to investigate failures in BSE testing programme UK UK - The Food Standards Agency (UK)is investigating an apparent failure by the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) to test some casualty cattle aged between 24 and 30 months for BSE before they entered the food chain. Source: MedicalNewsToday
Thursday, June 03, 2004
BSE outbreak in sheep could lead to cull of 25m animals UK - Up to 25 million sheep, two-thirds of the national flock, might be destroyed if the nightmare of BSE spreading from cattle to sheep were proved to have occurred. Contingency plans which were published by the government yesterday made clear there...
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Study predicts increase in British vCJD cases UK - An analysis of thousands of samples of appendix tissue in the United Kingdom (UK) suggests that the number of future cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) disease there could turn out to be higher than expected. Source: CIDRAP News
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
UK Farmers must make the effort UK - The English beef industry must make a concerted effort over the coming few months to turn the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recommendation on "moderate rate" BSE status into the reality of a worthwhile resumption in bone-in beef exports. Source:...
Friday, May 21, 2004
New fears arise over human form of BSE UK - Thousands of Britons could be harbouring the human form of mad cow disease, according to government research published today. Scientists examining 12,674 stored appendix and tonsil samples said they had identified three bearing signs of the agent...
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
'Great news for our beef' UK - Another chapter has closed in the greatest disaster ever to hit the British industry. Food safety experts in Brussels have backed the call to relax the restrictions on United Kingdom beef exportsimposed during the BSE crisis. Source: icWa...
Friday, May 14, 2004
UK's BSE crisis draws to an end UK - Fall out from the BSE crisis that hit the UK meat industry in the 1990s could be nearly over as the EU’s food safety body paves the way for British beef to move down from its ‘high risk’ classification. Source: FoodProductionDaily
Thursday, May 13, 2004
British Beef gets European Food Safety Chiefs Backing UK - Government calls for Europe to relax controls on UK beef exports have been backed by food safety experts in Brussels. Source: DEFRA
Friday, May 07, 2004
Producer prices in spotlight UK - Producer prices and whether the future would bring increases was one of the overriding factors at a conference looking at the beef and sheep sectors addressed by industry leaders in Cumbria yesterday. Concerns about price and how producers could...
Friday, April 23, 2004
Farmer broke BSE rules UK - A farmer has been fined £6,000 after selling two animals which could have had mad cow disease to a Cheshire abattoir, a court was told. Quick-thinking vets at Malpas County Meats in Hampton prevented them from getting into the food chain and called...
