What is Australia doing to prevent BSE and vCJD?
Australia has put in place a number of measures to prevent BSE and vCJD: • strict controls and restrictions on imports of live animals, genetic material and animal feedstuffs; • a ban on feeding meat and bone meal to ruminant animals, • a national animal disease surveillance program, • assessment of medicines and therapeutic devices that use bovine (cow-derived) materials during production, and • deferral of blood donations from people who lived in Britain for a cumulative period of six months or more between 1980 and 1996 or who received a blood transfusion in Britain from 1980 onwards, irrespective of their length of stay. To ensure that these measures are well-informed, the situation overseas and in Australia is constantly monitored and advances in science are continually being reviewed.
Australia has put in place a number of measures to prevent BSE and vCJD: • the strict controls and restrictions on imports of live animals, genetic material and animal feedstuffs; • the stringent requirements to safeguard the Australian population against exposure to the BSE agent via imported beef or beef products, • a ban on feeding meat and bone meal to ruminant animals, • a national BSE surveillance program in cattle, • the assessment of medicines and therapeutic devices that use bovine (cow-derived) materials during production , and • the deferral of blood donations from people who lived in the UK for a cumulative period of six months or more between 1980 and 1996 or who received a blood transfusion or injection of blood or blood products while in the UK from 1980 onwards, irrespective of their length of stay. To ensure that these measures are well-informed, the situation overseas and in Australia is constantly monitored and advances in science are continually being reviewed.
