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March 24, 2016 at 24:42 by by Emmanuelle TRECOLLE
A French cattle has been the victim of BSE, or cow disease crazy in the Ardennes, a first since 2011, confirmed Thursday the Ministry of Agriculture, according to which there will be “no consequences for the consumer.”
“the suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a cow 5 years died prematurely in a farm of the Ardennes was confirmed March 23 by the reference laboratory of the European Union (EU-RL), “the ministry said Thursday in a statement.
the last confirmed case of BSE in France in 2011, the still unexplained, remained isolated, that is to say, it did not spread to the within the flock.
the Department asserts that “the detection of this case (in the Ardennes) has no consequence for the consumer.” The mode of contamination is in fact probably not the same as during the outbreak of the late 90s as animal meal, so involved, have since been prohibited for animal feed.
cows belonging to the “cohort” of the dead animal for BSE will be slaughtered within 30 days, according to the ministry. This is cattle breeding this year of age more or less that the dead cow and therefore “may have been exposed to the same food source”, and calves “born less than two years “of the sick cow, which can be always on the farm or have been sold live.
” This could be a hundred cattle “, half of the Ardennes present operating 400 cows Salers, and for which the farmer “will be compensated.”
the compensation measures “does not perhaps cover the entire loss, including moral damage. for the farmer, it is shock, severe stress, “stressed however Clausse Philippe, director of the FDSEA of the Ardennes, branch of agricultural union majority.
he said” we must not overreact. it is not all in the same situation they were a few years (…) We are not now facing a problem of epidemic as was the case a few years ago. But one is never safe from a case that makes an isolated recurrence, “said he explained
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this is indeed the ‘third single case of BSE detected this type in Europe since 2015, “the ministry said. the previous two cases were observed in Ireland and Britain, but epidemiological investigations that followed did not reveal the mode of contamination.
the Minister of Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, will “urge the European Commission to seize the European food safety Authority ( EFSA) to better understand the origin and cause of those isolated cases in cattle, “the ministry said.
a meeting of the National Advisory Board of animal and plant health policy (CNOPSAV) is scheduled for Friday “to introduce management measures to be implemented” to the profession.
France, reclassified in 2015 as countries with “significant risk” for BSE by the World Health Organization animal health (OIE), will now return to the country status “controlled risk”, such as Great Britain, Ireland and Germany.
According to the Ministry, it is “likely” that countries which had reopened since 2015 their borders to French exports – Saudi Arabia, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam – close them again. But these countries represent only a small volume of exports.
The other EU countries, the main recipients of French meat sales, can however not close their doors to the hexagonal beef.
the discovery of this case of BSE is “bad news but the direct economic consequences will be limited and real,” judge ministry.
the national beef Association, section of FNSEA, for his part, refused to comment on this news as farmers face a significant drop in prices for a year.
Appearing in the UK in the 80s, BSE s’ had spread to many countries in Europe and around the world because of the use of animal meal contaminated with crushed carcasses. Suspected to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, she had aroused the concern of consumers and led to a serious crisis in the beef sector.
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