BSE Scare Ireland June 17, 2015 12:00 am A suspected case of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) has been identified in Ireland. The five year-old cow, which had not entered the food chain, will undergo full examination. The scare comes just months after the 16-year US ban was lifted and Ireland began exporting beef to the US. The case was identified just a week after Ireland was granted ‘negligible risk status’ from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE); it is likely to now return to ‘controlled risk status’ under which the US ban was lifted.
