BSE fears prompt tougher cattle regulations

Farmers and cattle dealers are breaking rules designed to protect people contracting Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) through their food 25 years after the crisis started, the government has revealed. Ministers have introduced further restrictions against moving older cattle off farms amid investigations into reports of illegal trading. These have included a Cumbrian cattle dealer sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for sending an overage animal to be slaughtered for human consumption.

Infected meat has been blamed for most of the 170 deaths from variant CJD, the human form of BSE, in the UK – a handful have been caused by contaminated blood products – and a battery of rules are meant to protect consumers. Read more ...

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