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". – Community hygiene legislation applies to all meat or meat products irrespective of their price, ensuring the same high level of consumer protection. It is not acceptable that cheap meat should be less safe than dearer meat.
The Commission is very carefully following all issues relating to material which could present risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. In this context, it gave a prominent mandate to the Scientific Steering Committee to review the current list of so-called specified risk material if new scientific evidence becomes available in this field.
In June 2000 the Commission adopted Decision 2000/418/EC which requires the removal of a series of bovine, ovine and caprine tissues from food and feed chains. In particular it provides that bones of the skull from cattle over 12 months of age have to be banned in all Member States. In addition, it extends the list of specified risk material to the vertebral column of bovine animals over 30 months of age in the United Kingdom and Portugal.
Following further opinions of the Scientific Steering Committee, the Commission presented a proposal at the Standing Veterinary Committee meeting of 7 February, which designated the vertebral column as a specified risk material to be removed and destroyed for cattle over the age of 12 months. This proposal was accepted by the Standing Veterinary Committee and, when it is formally adopted, Member States will be required to ensure removal of the vertebral column. This may take place at the point of sale, that is in the butchers' shops, from 31 March 2001.
The proposal included provisions for derogations from the obligation to remove the vertebral column, on the basis of scientific committee opinions, for five Member States – Austria, Finland, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This derogation is conditional on continued and improved surveillance for the presence of BSE in those Member States, with increased testing of certain categories of animals required. The derogations will be reviewed if necessary in the light of the results of these tests and further scientific advice."@en1
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