Safety Expert Calls for End to Bse Cattle Culls; Pennington Says Slaughter a Waste of Public Money
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A leading food safety expert has called for an end to cattle culling rules imposed to reduce the risk of BSE, which he claims are redundant and a waste of billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
Professor Hugh Pennington, a world-renowned expert on food standards, says safety rules, which insist cattle aged more than 30 months be killed, have barely discernible public safety benefits, yet have so far cost the taxpayer (pounds) 2.35 billion in compensation to farmers.See the full content of this document
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Safety Expert Calls for End to Bse Cattle Culls; Pennington Says Slaughter a Waste of Public Money
"The best risk analysts in the world have pored over this problem and found that there is a minuscule, worst-case scenario risk of a few more vCJD cases in the population, should the slaughter be scrapped," Pe...
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