EU lifts ban on feeding pigs and poultry with meat and bone meal

The European Union has lifted the ban on the use of processed animal protein (PAP) as feed for non-ruminant animals. According to newfoodmagazine, the ban has been in effect since 1994 following the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the UK. Basically, the change to the law means pigs and poultry can now be fed with cattle and sheep carcasses, although PAP is still banned as feed for cattle and small ruminants. As a result of the outbreak of the disease in the 1990s, a worldwide ban on the export of British beef was introduced, which was lifted only in 2006. The outbreak was thought to be due to the practice of adding meat and bone meal to animal feed. Then this led to the culling of millions of cattle and the death of 178 people - they contracted one of the variants of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease as a result of eating infected ...