Italy orders the burning of animal feed made from meat meal

OA show ('918 '); on Wednesday, two Italian ministers, the Ministry of health and the Ministry of environment, said they had issued decrees to burn meat meal as animal feed and residues after slaughtering cattle to prevent mad cow disease The two ministers said in a statement, "this is necessary because if we do not destroy the substances that may spread mad cow disease It will bring considerable danger to human environment and health " On Monday, the European Union imposed a six-month ban on the use of meat and bone meal (MBM) feed to livestock, but whether the feed should be destroyed or stored in case the ban on meat and bone meal is lifted in July has yet to be agreed between the 15 countries In the last month of 2000, the fear of mad cow swept across Europe, and politicians in Italy repeatedly claimed that they would take urgent measures to prevent the introduction of deadly brain diseases to ensure the safety of the country and beef On Wednesday, the two ministers said the burning plan would apply to all meat meal as basic feed for burning, as well as to residues from any slaughterhouse, such as cattle brain, spinal cord and intestines The decree will last for three months The use of meat to feed herbivores is suspected to be one of the causes of the spread of mad cow disease and its equally deadly human disease, Creutzfeldt Jakob disea se The European Union has declared the use of MBM illegal as a response to last year's fear of mad cow disease, banning the use of MBM feed to livestock, and barring the physical entry of cattle that have survived up to 30 months into the food chain unless BSE testing is carried out "As of today, 1300 tests have been carried out in Italy, all of which are negative." The Minister of Health said the individual in the review had been published on his website It will take about a month to expand the test nationwide, because the sudden demand stimulus delayed the test and they had to wait In 1994, two cases of BSE were found in two kinds of cattle imported from Britain by Italy, and all cattle have been destroyed (author:)