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.

AVA has partially lifted the import ban on UK beef. Deboned beef from cattle under 30 months of age has been approved for import into Singapore. Prior to this approval, imports of all beef and beef products from the UK had been suspended since 1996, due to the outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (also known as BSE or mad cow disease). BSE is a fatal brain disorder of cattle, and evidence shows links between the consumption of infected cattle meat and an increased risk of a brain-degenerating disease (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD) in humans.