The reintroduction of processed animal protein (PAP) into some livestock feed is on the cards, with Defra now considering ...

More than 175,000 cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been diagnosed in cattle in the UK since 1986. The recognition during this time of previously unknown transmissible ...

In the 1990s, millions of cattle were culled across the UK during a classical BSE epidemic, linked to cattle eating rendered animal products contaminated with the BSE agent. Due to a ban in 1996 ...

Many experts noticed early on how BSE bore a close resemblance to a well-known fatal disease in sheep and goats, called ...

Within weeks of the release of the report by the Phillips inquiry into the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in the UK, concern about the zoonotic disease is spreading across Europe.

Scottish beef prices have soared, with abattoirs raising base rates to £6.15/kg. Some cattle even hit £6.25/kg ...

Germany unveiled plans to slaughter and burn 400,000 cattle in response ... four years after the UK imposed a total ban. Ministers had claimed their country was free of BSE, despite warnings ...

The monitoring of BSE has been an important function since the crisis of 1986 when 180,000 cattle were infected and 4.4 million slaughtered in order to eradicate the disease in the UK. There are ...

In this particular case what is most surprising is that cattle in the region are only fed with grass. BSE or ‘mad cow’ emerged in the eighties in the UK in livestock fed on special rations ...

It is also asking for a ban on all cattle over 30 months old entering the food chain, unless previously tested for BSE and cleared. A third proposal would extend the category of prohibited ...

TSEs include scrapie in sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, chronic wasting ... The first case of BSE in the UK occurred in 1986 and since then there have been ...