EU agriculture ministers meet today to discuss BSE (12.5)
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OA show ('918 '); EU agriculture ministers began arriving in Brussels for an emergency meeting scheduled for April 4 to discuss tough measures to deal with BSE Mad cow disease has caused consumers to refuse to buy beef, causing huge losses to the meat industry in Europe The agriculture ministers will discuss proposals to ban the addition of animal meat and bone meal to feed cattle, pigs and poultry from January 1 and to continue to ban the consumption of animals that have not been tested for more than 30 months It is expected that these measures will further increase the agricultural budget and cause many practical problems The European Commission believes that these tough measures are the only way to solve the problem, as BSE is likely to become the most important problem at the EU summit to be held on Thursday (7) The summit was supposed to discuss the expansion of the EU and the urgent need for institutional reform After Germany and Spain reported the first case of mad cow disease, Europeans thought that the current measures were not enough to curb mad cow disease, and consumer concerns intensified China feed industry information network GFE (author:)
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