Advice of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Food Safety Agency regarding meat inspection without incisions for cattle until the age of eight months -partim prioritization of zoonotic agents and monitoring

The Scientific Committee has inventoried the most important zoonoses for veal calves in Belgium and has characterized them on the basis of 4 criteria: probability of transfer to humans through consumption of calf meat, estimated prevalence in Belgium among veal calves, gravity of the disease in humans and the number of reported human cases in Belgium. On the basis of the data for the 4 criteria (annex 2), the Scientific Committee has concluded that, under the present epidemiologic circumstances, salmonellosis and human pathogenic E. coli are the 2 most important zoonoses amongst veal calves in... Mehr ...