Industry To Study Cost Of Reducing Mad Cow Risk
AUSTRALIA - The meat industry is commissioning a study to investigate how much it would cost to remove all BSE-risk material from beef in the human and livestock food chains.Spokesman Ed Klim says the risk of BSE is low but the financial risk to the beef industry from an outbreak will be analysed.
"There were some studies conducted a number of years ago but they're now two years old and the science and things have moved on a lot," he said.
Source: ABC News Online