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Government proposes changes to UK BSE control

09/12/2004

UK’s secretary of state has announced the start of a managed transition towards the lifting of the Over Thirty Months (OTM) Rule, the BSE control set up in 1996 that automatically bans older cattle from entering the human food chain. It will be replaced by a robust testing system of cattle for BSE.

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