Mad Cow Disease Risk on the Agenda of Upcoming TSE Advisory Committee Meeting

The Food and Drug Administration has announced a June 1, 2015,
public meeting of the Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies
(TSE) Advisory Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland. Presentations
at the meeting will reportedly target the (i) current bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) “situation” domestically and worldwide; (ii) U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s regulatory approaches to decreasing the
risk of foodborne exposure to BSE; and (iii) variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease “situation” domestically and worldwide, and status of the U.K.’s
Transfusion Medicine Epidemiological Review. Written comments must
be submitted by May 25. See Federal Register, April 29, 2015.

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