date:Jun 07, 2013
ing meat from scrapie infected animals. In addition, the parts of the animal most likely to contain infectivity were removed before entering the human food chain.
The two animals were slaughtered as part of a batch of 26 goats on 21 January 2013 at Melton Meat Ltd, a slaughterhouse in Leicestershire. This was part of the Compulsory Scrapie Flocks Scheme, which allows undiagnosed animals from flocks affected by scrapie to be monitored for the disease at slaughter.
The slaughterhouse took the re