Illegal use of meat and bone meal by feed producers detected in France
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Last Update: 2002-11-21
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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Introduction: a French animal feed manufacturer is under investigation because it is suspected that it has used more than 100 tons of banned meat and bone meal (MBM) as feed material, which may have been infected with mad cow disease, French judicial officials said on Tuesday The company, matralan, denied that it used the ingredient, admitting that it had inadvertently used it in small quantities in the months before it banned it in 2000 France's anti fraud agency said the case began last year after an inspection of the company, matralan, near the Western French city of Nantes, found it was using illegal beef bone meal In one of the company's warehouses, 117 tons of "creuton," a harmless bone meal made from feathers and chicken blood, were found, local inspectors said But the analysis shows that there are very dangerous animal bone meal ingredients in this batch of bone meal The problem is that three-quarters of the bone meal has been used to produce feed after finding out the stock and inspection results Since November 14, 2000, France has banned the use of meat and bone meal in feed production, mainly to prevent the spread of mad cow disease Scientists have linked BSE to the deadly form of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease Nantes inspection started an investigation into the company last week.
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