Brazil: minister welcomes new BSE status report
28/02/2012
Brazil’s minister for animal health, Guilherme Marques, has welcomed an announcement from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that it will downgrade Brazil’s status for risk of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) from controlled risk to negligible risk. At a meeting in Paris in mid-February, the OIE’s Scientific Commission for...