EU experts disapprove of all the herds where mad cattle are slaughtered (10.4)

OA show ('918 '); when the European Union Scientific Steering Committee recently expressed its latest views on the prevention measures of BSE in European countries, it hoped that EU Member States would formulate more reasonable slaughtering policies for the herds where the sick cattle live as soon as possible The Commission has made technical criticisms of the "slaughtering of whole herds" preventive measures implemented in some countries The EU Scientific Steering Committee is composed of experts and scholars appointed by EU Member States It often makes suggestions to the European Commission on a scientific issue or, at the request of the European Commission, gives scientific advice on a specific issue The committee said that some countries have been implementing the prevention policy of "slaughtering the whole herd", that is, slaughtering and burning all the herds where the sick cattle are located However, it has been proved that only a few of these slaughtered cattle directly related to the sick cattle will suffer from BSE, while most of the other cattle are still healthy The Committee therefore recommended that countries should adopt a policy of selective slaughtering, that is, slaughtering cattle with similar birth time, parent-child relationship, eating the same feed at a specific stage or having suspicious symptoms, which could reduce the number of cattle slaughtered by two thirds At present, in the EU countries, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland and other countries have implemented the prevention policy of BSE by slaughtering the whole herd, while the UK, Switzerland and other countries have implemented the selective slaughtering policy China feed industry information network TCA (author:)