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EU raises threat level for BSE in Canada, USA and Norway

24/08/2004

The European Food Safety Authority has raised its assessment of the risk of finding mad cow disease in the USA, Canada and Norway. Officials said the move would affect only Norwegian beef exporters.

 

Norway's reclassification from "highly unlikely" to "unlikely but not excluded" means its exporters will have to "take out a bit more significant risk material" before shipping beef into the EU, said Beate Gminder, European Commission spokeswoman.

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