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Health Council calls for further research into TSEs and alcohol consumption

Europe's Health Ministers stressed the importance of promoting research into two areas at the Health Council in Luxembourg on 5 June: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) and problems associated with alcohol consumption. The council emphasised the need for scientific...

Europe's Health Ministers stressed the importance of promoting research into two areas at the Health Council in Luxembourg on 5 June: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) and problems associated with alcohol consumption. The council emphasised the need for scientific research on emerging and re-emerging diseases of zoonotic origin, including the origin and possible transmission of TSE agents, the development of methods to render TSE agents inactive, clinical and laboratory diagnostic procedures concerning TSE and measures to identify risks in iatrogenic transmission and develop protective measures against the possible risks. The council invited the Commission to strengthen and further develop research in these areas and to consider them in the development of Community policies. The Commission was also requested to support the exchange between Member States of information and knowledge on good practice concerning measures to eradicate risk and to better guard against the possible risks of iatrogenic transmission. Alcohol consumption by young people received a lot of attention at the meeting. The council agreed on a recommendation stating that the Member States, with the appropriate support of the Commission, should promote research into the different aspects of problems associated with alcohol consumption by young people and disseminate findings on the factors which motivate young people to start drinking. The Commission was invited to promote further research into alcohol consumption by young people at Community level. Representing the Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner David Byrne delivered a report emphasising the participation of the applicant countries in the EU's health programme as well as other relevant activities in the field of public health, such as the research framework programmes. These programmes should be used by the candidate countries in order to further health development, said the Commissioner.lis", vien

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