Sentence examples for bse- from inspiring English sources

Like the entire BSE saga, it manages to bore, scandalise, disgust and terrify, all at the same time.

Sir John Krebs, the chairman of the Food Standards Agency (which was set up in the aftermath of the BSE-scandal), called for an urgent screening programme to check whether sheep in Britain could be infected with BSE.

America maintains a close watch on all its herds, keeping out any cow or part of a carcass from countries where BSE has been detected.

Although the number of new cases of BSE has fallen steadily in Britain, due to bans on certain feeds and the mandatory culling of infected animals, vCJD has a long incubation period, which could be 20 years or more.

The number of new cases in Europe is small by comparison two each in Germany and Spain but BSE, like any epidemic, starts small.

THE Phillips report into the origins of BSE (mad cow disease) and its human equivalent, vCJD, was a cautious, unhysterical document.

But some scientists are now worried that cases of BSE in sheep may have been misdiagnosed as scrapie.

One is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

Among them is a six-month ban on feeding meat-and-bone meal to any farmyard animal.Cattle probably acquire BSE mainly though eating infected meal.

America and Canada, two of the world's leading beef producers, were considered only marginally riskier in terms of BSE-infection.

America's agriculture department is confident that the country is BSE-free, but nevertheless it has had a plan for emergency action ready since 1990 should the disease appear.Panicking about the menuUnfortunately, much of the crisis in Europe can be blamed on politicians and bureaucrats.