The Commission will next week adopt tougher rules to protect consumers from BSE…

Date: 24/07/1997

...after farm ministers this week failed to either agree or reject the plan by a big enough majority. Eight countries supported plans to remove certain risky materials (including the brains, eyes, spinal cords and spleens of cattle, sheep and goats) from the food chain, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. The decision averted UK threats of unilateral action.