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The European Union summary report on surveillance for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in 2021.


ABSTRACT: This report presents the results of surveillance on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in cattle, sheep, goats, cervids and other species, and genotyping in sheep and goats, carried out in 2021 by 27 Member States (MS, EU27), the United Kingdom (in respect of Northern Ireland) (XI), and eight other non-EU reporting countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey. In total, 1,021,252 cattle were tested by EU27 and XI (-9%, compared with 2020 when data from the United Kingdom were not restricted to Northern Ireland), and 66,121 cattle by eight non-EU reporting countries, with two cases of H-BSE in France and Spain, and four L-BSE in France (2), Germany and Spain. In total, 311,174 sheep and 118,457 goats were tested

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709582 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature