DRASTIC plans to fight the spread of mad cow disease across Europe were
agreed this week by European Union agriculture ministers. The new rules will
close a loophole left by earlier controls agreed last month, which would have
pushed a surge of BSE-infected meat onto European plates.
From January, no livestock feed in the EU will contain rendered animal
remains, except for fat. More dramatically, the ministers stated that “animals
more than 30 months old which have not been tested [for BSE] cannot enter the
food chain”. This will also apply from January. As testing will not be available
at…
