Report: Britain dumped banned animal meat on Third World
Regional-UK, Economics, 11/8/2000

"Britain offloaded tens of thousands of tons of potentially BSE-infected cattle feed on the Third World after deciding it was too dangerous to give to herds in the UK" reported the British daily the Guardian.

The Guardian report on October 29, the report said "the meal and bonemeal was exported after March 1988, when the Government realised that feed made from slaughtered animals was the probable cause of the BSE epidemic in UK cattle. In July that year, the Government banned its use in Britain, and a week later officially informed the European Union, then the EEC, of its fears. But it wasn't until March 1996, eight years later, that a worldwide ban on the export of MBM, as it was called, came into force."

It is not clear if there have been infections as a result of the British feed exported to the Middle East to feed cattle as cattle owners may not have reported such cases to the related international agencies.

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