Cull halted after new BSE report
Cull halted after new BSE report
- 1996
- Farmers' Weekly 125(10) 6 September 1996, 10 Daily Telegraph 13 September 1996, 1&2(3) .
Summarises results from the Oxford University/MAFF report on BSE. Concludes that slaughtering 83,000 fewer cattle than MAFF recommends would be just as effective at eradicating BSE. MAFF has now shelved the cull, and the Cabinet will back MAFF unless the EU agrees to lift the British beef export ban.
BSE
CULLING POLICY
MAFF
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Summarises results from the Oxford University/MAFF report on BSE. Concludes that slaughtering 83,000 fewer cattle than MAFF recommends would be just as effective at eradicating BSE. MAFF has now shelved the cull, and the Cabinet will back MAFF unless the EU agrees to lift the British beef export ban.
BSE
CULLING POLICY
MAFF
OXFORD UNIVERSITY