Why is vertebral column regarded as SRM?
FSAI – Industry Information: Authorisation of Retail Butcher…Vertebral column is the part of the skeleton which, in life, contains the spinal cord. The connections of the spinal cord to the nerves throughout the body are facilitated by structures known as Dorsal Root Ganglia. These are tiny junction boxes which lie very close to the spinal cord, within or close to the vertebral column. In bovine animals over 24 months of age the TSE-related risk associated with these structures is deemed sufficient to warrant their removal from the food chain as SRM.
