- LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - The
Slovenian Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday a Swiss laboratory had
confirmed
Slovenia's first case of mad cow disease.
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- The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
first detected two weeks ago in a five-year-old cow bred at a small farm
in the Gornji Grad municipality in north-eastern Slovenia.
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- The ministry said the outbreak was isolated and there
was no danger of the disease spreading, adding that the country had spent
over 5.5 billion tolars ($22 million) on BSE testing.
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- ``All necessary measures have been in force since the
first suspicion of BSE was raised,'' agriculture ministry spokesman Jakob
Stunf told Reuters.
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- When suspicions were first raised, Bosnia and
neighbouring
Croatia immediately banned imports of meat and livestock from Slovenia,
an Alpine nation of two million people that also borders on Austria, Italy
and Hungary.
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- In line with European Union regulations, Slovenia--which
hopes to join the EU in 2004--has introduced tests on all animals older
than 30 months and has banned the use of meat and bone meal in animal
feed.
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- BSE has spread in herds in Britain, France and other
west European countries, Japan and in the Czech and Slovak
republics.
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