Scientific Steering Committee rejects BSE milk risk but recommends caution
The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) has reconfirmed that there is no evidence of a possible BSE risk from milk or colostrums, but has nevertheless recommended caution. Milk, colostrums or milk products from animals with clinical signs of BSE should, for precautionary reasons, not be consumed, says the SSC. The SSC also recommends monitoring some of the offspring of BSE cases so as to collect possible field evidence of maternal transmission of BSE. The Committee also adopted two statements, the first concerning a new process for treating BSE and TSE contaminated waste materials based on alkaline hydrolysis at elevated temperature, and the second concerning an opinion of the French Food Safety Agency (AFFSA), which the Committee finds does not provide new elements with respect to its standing opinion on the presence of BSE in small ruminants.