Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), regularly known as distraught dairy animals infection, is a lethal neurodegenerative ailment (encephalopathy) in steers that causes a supple degeneration in the cerebrum and spinal line.

BSE has a long brooding period, around 2.5 to 8 years, generally influencing grown-up steers at a top age onset of four to five years, all breeds being just as powerless. BSE is brought about by a misfolded protein—a prion. In the United Kingdom, the nation most noticeably bad influenced, more than 180,000 steers have been tainted and 4.4 million butchered.

Mexico has legislative controls and systems to prevent the introduction and amplification of the BSE agent within the Mexican cattle population and contamination of the human food supply with the BSE agent. In-country assessment by FSANZ personnel confirmed that legislative requirements relevant to BSE prevention and control are effectively implemented. BSE Food Safety Risk Assessment Report, Mexico.