date:Jan 22, 2014
o alter Germanys beef consumption or rules regarding BSE. Germanys BSE screening protocols require any beef cattle older than eight years to automatically be tested for BSE.
Germanys first cases of BSE were discovered in 2000. The country has seen a total of 312 cases, compared to the United Kingdoms 183,000 and the United States four.
The first known case of BSE occurred in the U.K. in 1986. Since then, more than 150 people in the U.K. have fallen ill and died from the human counterpart to BS