What is Australia doing to prevent BSE?
Australia maintains its BSE free status through a complete ban on importing live cattle from all countries that have reported cases of BSE. We also have a compulsory ban on the feeding of feedstuffs containing meat and bone meal to ruminants. This ban is backed up by tighter regulations on the labelling of feedstuffs. As a further measure, Australia has an ongoing national surveillance program that tests hundreds of cattle and sheep brains from animals that display certain nervous symptoms each year. This is to demonstrate to world markets that Australia remains BSE and scrapie free.
