EP OPPOSES BSE FISHMEAL BAN
July 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for an end to the European Union (EU)-wide ban on feeding fish meal and fish oil to adult ruminants including beef cattle, claiming there is no evidence to back claims that the practice transmits BSE or other TSEs. MEPs are concerned that the ban is limiting a market for discards and waste from Europe's booming aquaculture sector, and that because of improved testing methods "there is no risk of confusing the presence of [potentially BSE-ridden] mammalian meat and bone meal with fishmeal" in livestock feed. A ...
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