BSE bovine spongiform

AChR acetycholine receptor BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy... 

Scientific procedures for risk assessment include assessment of risk for human health as well as risk for the environment. A substantial part of the EU risk assessment work was in 1997 delegated to the DG SANCO, in relation to the scandal surrounding BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease ). Risk assessment work not under DG SANCO includes pharmaceuticals, working environment, and health effects caused by lifestyle factors such as diet, smoking, and alcohol consumption (EU 2006f). 

Following on from the BSE crisis, UKROFS included standards that related to this subject. These standards state In herds where animals have contracted BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), or where animals have been brought in from herds in which BSE has occurred within the previous six years, then all contemporaries and first-generation progeny of all BSE cases must be removed from the herd and must not be sold as organic. Contemporaries are defined as animals originating from the same herd, which shared the same food, or were born into the same herd, or were bom within three months either side of the date of birth of the BSE case. 

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