In defending “biosecurity”, governments have tended to react defensively to diseases like the H5N1 bird flu and mad-cow disease (or BSE), disrupting not just bilateral trade but international markets as well.
A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions THE epidemic of mad-cow disease in people that some forecast in the 1990s has not, fortunately, come to pass.
Since a ban on processed animal protein was imposed in 2001 in the wake of the " mad cow" crisis, soy and fish meal have become the bedrock of animal feed in Europe.