Note on the weight of intestine in small ruminants and expected risk reduction – 2002
Authors P. Comer, R. Bradley35 Report DNV Report (2002) Summary The Food Standards Agency (FSA) of the UK had proposed to the European Commission that the intestine of small ruminants is made SRM throughout the European Union as a result of our commendation in the Report of the Core Stakeholder Group on BSE and Sheep, […]
Assessment of the risk of exposure to the BSE agent through the use of natural sausage casings – 2002
Author P. Comer34 Report DNV Report No. 716146 (2002) Conclusions The processing of the small intestine of sheep into sausage casings reduces the weight by a factor of 9. As most lymphatic tissue is removed during processing it is suggested that the average infectivity in casings should be reduced by an additional factor of 10. […]
Natural sausage casings and the BSE / TSE risk
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE was first officially diagnosed in the United Kingdom in November 1986. BSE or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy became quickly known as “mad cow disease” due to the typical movement and behaviour of animals suffering from the disease. Since the first BSE outbreak in 1986, more than 180,000 cases in cattle have been […]
Introduction
In retrospect, the period from the late nineties until the end of 2014 turned out to be one of the most challenging periods for beef and sheep casing production due to the occurrence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), especially in Europe. Beef casings produced from cattle intestines were designated Specified Risk Material (SRM)and banned for […]