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Report
No.231005 |
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Revised OIE Standards Keeps Age Limit on Boneless Beef Trade OIE (Office International des Epizooties / World Organization for Animal Health), which is an international organization in charge of animal hygiene, adopted by consensus, the draft revisions of the international standards on animal health relating to BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) at its annual general session of the International Committee held in Paris on May 24 and they were formalized at its last day's meeting on May 26. The revised standards keep the existing BSE related provisions so that the trade limitation of boneless beef made from cattle 30 months of age and younger continues. Prior to convening the general session, the OIE had suggested to table a draft revision that deleted the limitation on import from BSE infected countries only to deboned beef made from cattle '30 months of age or less' so as to allow beef made from cattle of all ages as freely tradable regardless of the BSE risk status of exporting countries. However, partly due to the oppositions expressed by Japan and the European Union, the draft revision tabled in May resurrected '30 months of age or less' limitation. At meetings of the general session, Japan, the European Union, Korea and Singapore sought to keep the age limitation. As regards the progeny of infected cattle, the standards used to require compulsory slaughter of i) all the progeny of female cases, born within 2 years prior to or after clinical onset of the disease; ii) all cattle born in the same herd as, and within 12 months of the birth of, the BSE cases. However, there having been no reported cases of mother-to-calf infection, the revised standards put the progeny off from compulsory slaughter. |
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