EU agriculture minister decides to ban the use of meat and bone meal feed (12.6)

OA show ('918 '); EU agriculture minister, who held an emergency meeting in Brussels, agreed on the evening of the 4th to take tough new measures to deal with BSE, including banning the use of animal feed containing meat and bone meal for six months starting from January next year, and banning domestic animals aged more than 30 months from entering the food chain After nine hours of negotiations between agriculture ministers, EU officials said the measures would boost confidence in European beef David Bourne, EU food safety commissioner, said: "this set of very important measures is to regain and maintain consumer confidence in beef." The EU produces about 3 million tons of meat and bone meal every year, and burning the discarded animal meat and bone to ashes would cost the EU 3 billion euros (2.66 billion US dollars) "That would be a huge financial loss," Bourne said But it's a price we have to pay to restore consumer confidence in our commitment to public health " China feed industry information network zxz (author:)