German officials warn that the mad cow disease crisis is not over
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Last Update: 2001-11-26
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Introduction: German agriculture minister qunast said on the 21st that the BSE crisis, which had caused a huge blow to German agriculture, animal husbandry and food industry, has not yet been completely eliminated, and its risk may last for 3 to 5 years, or even longer Therefore, all relevant departments "must continue to improve their vigilance" and strengthen their prevention BSE is an infectious spongiform encephalopathy that occurs in cattle Other animals may also be infected with BSE Therefore, the German Ministry of agriculture decided to carry out the relevant pathological examination on the sheep from next year The German Ministry of agriculture has even considered expanding the scope of inspection to other captive animals, such as roe deer, deer and argali In view of the fact that adding meat and bone meal to animal feed may be an important way of BSE infection, Germany banned the use of meat and bone meal in ruminant feed in 1994, and banned the addition of meat and bone meal to non ruminant feed such as pig feed at the end of last year So far, 124 cases of BSE have been found in Germany, about half of which are in Bavaria in the south The discovery of mad cow disease caused great panic in Germany, where beef consumption once fell by 60% Some experts estimate that the economic loss caused by the BSE crisis and its subsequent impact on Germany will be as high as 1 billion marks.
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