All commonly used processes in the bovine bone gelatin manufacturing process that have the potential to remove and/or inactivate BSE pathogens, are totally effective, according to the results of a ...

Viruses, not prions, may be at the root of diseases such as scrapie, BSE and variant Creutzfeldt ... that tiny virus-like particles observed in TSE-infected brains may be the culprits.

The cause of the original case or cases of BSE is currently unknown. Sheep scrapie or a previously undetected bovine transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that arose spontaneously have ...

US scientists and government officials have been paying close attention to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in Britain ... appears to be an atypical TSE.

EU ministers have eased controls on livestock production within the EU that are designed to restrict the spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), such as BSE. They have backed ...

A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) working group on TSE testing has approved one new rapid BSE test and two for TSEs in sheep and goats. A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) working group ...

scrapie in sheep and BSE in cows. The commission is now considering a review of the current TSE monitoring programmes. The next level of testing recommended by the CRL expert panel will use a ...