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"We can all still remember the social alarm caused in the middle of the 1990s by the epidemic scale that bovine spongiform encephalopathy reached in the EU; it is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, as is its human variant: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The immediate cause of the scale reached by the disease – transmitted by an agent called a prion, which is an abnormal form of protein – was the feeding of contaminated processed animal protein to cattle.
Based on Commission proposals motivated by the substantial decline recorded in the number of cases of the disease – 2 167 in 2001 to 67 in 2009 – resulting from the application of a series of legislative measures with a view to eradicating it, the report proposes that the legislative provisions currently in force be adapted. The obligations and requirements for doing this seem justified and adequate to us. We would stress the importance of maintaining tough rules on prohibition of foodstuffs. The deeper causes of this epidemic, as well as of other problems concerning food security and public health, are founded in the use of the intensive production models that the EU has been promoting, at the expense of extensive production models, which are primarily concerned with consumer health, environmental security and animal welfare."@en1
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