Sentence examples for feed ban from inspiring English sources

"That was the reason for the feed ban in 1997," he said.

Still, feed producers comply with the feed ban only 95percentt of the time, according to the Agriculture Department.

They have been urged to back the move by an influential EU committee, which called in a recent draft report for the feed ban to be revised.

A follow-up study by the accounting office in 2002 said that the F.D.A.'s "inspection database is so severely flawed" that "it should not be used to assess compliance" with the feed ban.

Union officials estimate that the feed ban -- intended to prevent cattle from eating, even accidentally, infected animal parts that can transmit the disease -- will cost nearly $4 billion a year.

Because of heightened awareness of increasing prevalence of BSE in Canadian cattle, Canada enhanced its feed ban in 2007 to prohibit the inclusion of "specified risk materials," as well as animal proteins, from all animal feeds.

He credited the decline to the effect of feed bans as a primary means of controlling the disease.

Prosecutors in several French cities are looking into accusations that dealers illegally imported British feed, banned from the Continent, by funneling them through Ireland or Belgium.

Though the number of cases of BSE in Britain has fallen steadily, thanks to feed bans and mandatory culling, the long incubation period of vCJD means that the number of patients is now rising, by 40% since last year to a total of 77 confirmed cases since 1995.

If the Canadian birth date is correct, that means the cow was born before new feed bans were put in place to protect cattle against infection through their food supply, and indicates that the presence of disease is not the result of flaws in the new procedures.

So far, the disease has not been diagnosed in a single American cow, and a study by Harvard University's School of Public Health released in November found that even if the disease did arrive, the country would be "highly resistant" to an epidemic because of the system of surveillance and trade and feed bans devised by Dr. Detwiler's team and the Food and Drug Administration.