Article: Agency 'happy' with French BSE controls.(News)

Article: France loses BSE case, told to drop beef ban.
Feedstuffs;  November 8, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... has been banned by France for more than three ... spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. "I ... last month, after France's national food ... had yet licked its BSE problem. British ... of any suspicion of BSE in its dam. Finally ... follow suit, but France and Germany refused ...

Article: Confusion over cows that slipped through France's ...
The Independent - London;  October 23, 2000 ;     523 words ... ... media information about BSE. In this respect, France has had a bad week. The claim made by a British BSE expert that French beef ... 12th tested positive for BSE in the middle of last week ... in northern and western France.

Article: France condemned after BSE discovered
The Scotsman;  April 12, 2002 ;     678 words ...FRANCE, which is maintaining a unilateral ban on British beef because of BSE fears, has been condemned for ... that its own internal anti-BSE controls were ineffective. The ... action, he warned: "French BSE controls must be brought up to ...

Article: McDonald's sales in France slump amid BSE panic
The Independent - London;  November 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... The slow but steady advance of BSE in France went almost unnoticed by the French ... pigs. The rise in the number of BSE cases in France - more than 100 this year, against ... exaggerated impression of the scale of BSE in France. Although the number of cases ...

Article: France confrontsBritain over BSE spread Row looms ...
The Independent - London;  January 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... encouraged, exports to France and other EU countries ... suspected of spreading BSE. Ground-up cattle remains ... criticism of his handling of France's BSE crisis. However, though ... accelerating the spread of BSE to France," Francois Honnorat told ...

Article: McDonald's Sales in France Slumping Amid Growing ...
Food & Drink Weekly;  December 4, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Great Britain but were still legal in France. With more than 100 BSE cases in France this year, compared to 31 cases last ... protective measures against the spread of BSE are tougher than those in France. Beef sold in Britain must come from ...

Article: France acts to stop BSE
The Independent - London;  July 7, 1998 ;     273 words ... ... of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - or "mad cow disease" has been found in the Loire Valley region in central France and the animal was destroyed, the farming ... Britain has been worst affected by BSE. The European Union imposed a beef ...