France is ready to give up the policy of slaughtering all mad cattle

Introduction: French agriculture and fisheries minister grawani said in the French National Assembly on the 8th that according to expert suggestions, it is completely feasible to give up the practice of slaughtering all mad cattle herds at present He said that with the approval of the State Food Safety Administration and other departments, he will issue a decree to cancel the practice by the end of this month, so as to change the policy of targeted slaughter of the herds where mad cattle live According to the current French law, once a cow is found to have mad cow disease, the relevant departments will immediately slaughter and burn all the cattle in the mad cow's herd, as well as the cattle that have lived for more than two weeks in the past two years According to statistics, 50000 cattle have been slaughtered in France since the first case of BSE was found in 1991, of which 35000 were slaughtered in 2001 alone French experts believe that the incubation period of BSE is 5 to 6 years, while most cases of BSE found in France were infected before 1995 or 1996 Since then, France has strengthened the management of the feed that may infect BSE, especially since November 2000, the relevant departments have further strengthened the measures to ensure the feed safety Therefore, the possibility of new born cattle infected with BSE is very small If the whole slaughtering policy continues, it will cause unnecessary loss and waste It is reported that at the end of December 2001, the French Ministry of agriculture has submitted to the State Food Safety and health administration a draft decree on canceling the implementation of the whole slaughtering policy for mad cow herds In this draft, the French Ministry of agriculture suggested that all cattle born after January 1, 2002 and all cows in lactation period in the mad cow herds should not be slaughtered France's Ministry of Agriculture said that the State Food Safety and health administration will evaluate the draft law in the near future If there is no objection, the Ministry of agriculture will issue and implement the law It will be the first time France has relaxed strict measures against mad cow disease At present, in some European countries, some countries still implement the policy of slaughtering all the herds in which the mad cattle live, but the UK, Switzerland and other countries implement the policy of selective slaughtering, only slaughtering the same age, parent-child relationship or suspicious symptoms of cattle in the herds (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: