BSE News and Developments - 27 -

-USDA and FAO launch Animal Disease Crisis Management Centre

-Study Shows Long Term Danger of Mad Cow Disease

-U.S. assists Canada in mad cow probe

CANADA:
-Canada seeks answers on latest mad-cow ban

EUROPE:
-EFSA: Opinion of the Scientific Panel BIOHAZ on the Breeding programme for TSE resistance in sheep

-EFSA recommends continuation of EU sheep breeding programme to reduce risk of scrapie and BSE
USA:
-Agriculture Department reduces testing for mad cow disease

-...BSE surveillance program will sample approximately 40,000 animals each year...

Source: USDA and FAO launch Animal Disease Crisis Management Centre
Author: FAO

Link: BSE surveillance program will sample approximately 40,000 animals each year
Link: Opinion of the Scientific Panel BIOHAZ on the Breeding programme for TSE resistance in sheep [1]
Link: Study Shows Long Term Danger of Mad Cow Disease
Link: U.S. Agriculture Department reduces testing for mad cow disease
Link: U.S. assists Canada in mad cow probe