Control of BSE

MAFF tightens up on feed production

Abstract

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), United Kingdom has announced 'a strengthening of the rules' for preventing tissue potentially infected with the BSE agent from entering the cattle feed chain. It also says that there is 'room for improvement' in the application of existing rules in some slaughterhouses, and that further action is under way to deal with this.

Full article published in Veterinary Record ( 1995) 137, 107