Hanwoo industry says 'No' to lifting ban on beef from older US cattle
The Hanwoo Association, a nonprofit overseeing Korea’s beef industry, has strongly opposed lifting the 2008 ban on imports of ...
Taipei Times5d
Group calls for details on proposed Japan beef rules
The FDA said that risk assessments and safety reviews have been thorough, adding that the World Organisation for Animal ...
Taipei Times9d
Consumer advocacy group opposes Japanese beef imports
The Consumers’ Foundation today announced its opposition to a plan to expand imports of Japanese beef, saying that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as “mad cow disease,” remains a ...
NHK10d
Taiwan to end import restrictions on Japanese beef
Taiwan banned imports of Japanese beef following an outbreak of BSE, or mad cow disease, in the country in 2001, but partially lifted the ban in 2017 after the beef's safety had been confirmed.
British blood plasma available on NHS for first time since BSE crisis
The NHS has begun using blood plasma donated by Brits for the first time in 27 years, after a ban introduced during the mad ...
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Scottish government confirms case of “mad cow” in a Aberdeenshire farm
BSE, also known as mad cow disease, can cause the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans. BSE devastated the British farming industry in the 1990s with more than four million cattle ...
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First NHS patients 'in a generation' get plasma from London donors
Donations are used to create plasma-derived medicines to treat conditions such as immune deficiencies, bleeding disorders and ...
ITV10d
First NHS patients 'in a generation' get plasma from London donors
This was due to UK plasma donors being exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) – sometimes known as mad cow disease – a fatal brain disease caused by prions. The UK relied solely on ...