The Department of Agriculture has confirmed a case of BSE, mad cow disease, was detected in a salers cow breeding Ardennes. “The suspicion of a 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)” according to the ministry statement.
the confirmation or not of the presence of BSE is expected within eight to ten days. A sample was sent to Britain to be analyzed by the reference laboratory in Europe on this disease. In the meantime, the breeder was accused and his herd of 400 animals “under surveillance” preventively by the prefecture, which prohibits movement of such animals outside the farm.
the descent only mode of contamination
Since October 2014, only cattle aged over 12 years may have ingested animal meal before a total ban, are tested for mandatory testing imposed in 2001 and those slaughterhouse died out, and sent for rendering older than 4 years. This was the case for the suspected bovine Ardennes, born in 2011. If BSE is confirmed, all the animals have been in contact with the sick person or related to him by descent – up and down – will be slaughtered, they are in the same farm or another farm, explained to Agence France-Presse experts from the Directorate General of Food (DGAL, under the Ministry of Agriculture).
Out of touch, since the end of animal meal, filiation is the only possible mode of contamination. “However, we need not blind the whole herd, it depends on the organization of livestock,” said EB. “But you really have to wait for the results of the investigation, we have been able to reconstruct the entire puzzle, the animal’s history and its culture conditions. “Experts also note that” the effectiveness of the device “holding tests on animals sent for rendering, in addition to those on the older, maintains” a level of supervision preventing diseased animals pass through the cracks. “
after the flour
the number of BSE cases in Europe dropped immediately after the feed ban in late 2001. French professionals, including the Federation Nationale bovine (FNB) had many struggled to get relief of tests, obtained in 2014, saying they continued to stigmatize the French meat in international markets and hamper their sales.
in addition, in May 2015, France has been reclassified among the countries with “negligible risk” for BSE from the World Organisation for animal health (OIE). This decision enabled to reopen access to countries like Saudi Arabia, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam and South Africa. If the case was confirmed in the Ardennes, France pass again in the “controlled risk country” category. The last case of BSE in France was confirmed in 2011, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Remained unexplained, it also remained isolated. As in Ireland in June 2015, the first confirmed case in the country since 2013, and the UK.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Appeared in 1980 UK, BSE had spread to many countries in Europe and around the world because of the use for animal feed 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.
The only term “mad cow” revives in the mind the traumatic image of the bonfires that lit themselves across England to remove animal carcasses contaminated or suspected such. Entire farms were then convicted and some cuts of meat, such as offal, were boycotted and embargoed for export. “But it is absolutely not there,” reassured Tuesday night EB, emphasizing the case “extremely rare BSE in super-naive animals,” that is to say, born after the ban MBM
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