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FDA plans reduction of BSE infection risk by 90 percent
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The plan is to eliminate all cow brains and spinal cords from all animals? feeds in effort to further reduce the chance for spreading of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). This `will make an already small risk even smaller,` acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach says in a press release.
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The new proposal would reduce the risk of infection by 90 percent, and the rules should take effect sometime next year following a public comment period, according to Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA`s Center for Veterinary Medicine.
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