Germany has admitted to flaws in its testing for BSE in certain non-approved laboratories. The German agriculture minister Renate Kunast gave a detailed account of “certain deficiencies” to other EU farm ministers this week, but said that measures had now been taken to correct matters on the advice of the European commission.
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David Byrne, EU commissioner for consumer affairs, asked other countries to review their own national procedures “to ensure that tests are carried out properly and in approved facilities.” The Commission recently forwarded a working document to agriculture science services in the EU Member States on the subject, but officials said the problem “does not appear to be widespread.”
By Alan Osborn, just-food.com correspondent
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