Animal Health Group Backs Beef Ban Lifting
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The World Organization of Animal Health said countries with mad cow disease should be allowed to export certain cuts of beef, allowing for a lifting of bans on U.S. and European Union meat.
Red-muscle meat without bones is safe if the animal isn’t suspected of having the brain-wasting disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, Alex Thiermann, an official from the organization, said at a news conference in Paris. The body is responsible for setting animal health standards.
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