Dutch Food and Safety Authority

Vion Tilburgslaughterhouse for dairy cattle

BSE control measures according to eu regulations

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1 - Identification and tracability

2 - Testing ruminants

3 - Handling of SRM (specified risk material)

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1. I & R

Database for bovins;

- <3 days notification of birth.

- <3 days notification for on/of movements.

- Slaugtherhouse has acces to control incoming

animals on all relevant data.

- No passports for internal movements.

computer registration carcasses

label carcas

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2. BSE Sampling

Sampling in The Netherlands-Rendac; all animals > 48 months

-Emergency slaughter on farms >48months

-Animals from Rumania, Bulgaria and

Kroatia > 30 months. (emergency >24 months)

-(clinical signs)

-(defects in I&R)

2. BSE Sampling

The Netherlands;

Rendering plant ; 150.000 bovins/year

55.000 BSE tests

Emergency slaughters; 5.500 bovins/year

2.000 BSE tests

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BSE sampling at Vion Tilburg

NONE !!

Protocol;

1.1 VT no emergency slaughters

1.2 VT no group 2 animals

BSE protocol Vion Tilburg 1.3-Rumanian, Bulgarian or Kroatian animals

-No permission for slaughter at AM

-No ear tags or otherwise incorrect I&R

stunned and killed.

And -DOA or DIS animals

BSE sampling at Rendering plant

Not identified animal

Categorie 2; only to be fed to zoo or circus animalsNo BSE sampling required

999/2001 Annex IV;Specified Risk Materialas regards to bovine animals: (i) the skull excluding the mandible and including the brain and eyes, and the spinal cord of animals aged over 12 months; (ii) the vertebral column excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the spinous and transverse processes of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae and the median sacral crest and wings of the sacrum, but including the dorsal root ganglia, of animals aged over 30 months; (iii) the tonsils, the last four meters of the smallintestines*, the caecum and the mesentery

of animals of all ages.*COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/728 (6-5-2015)

3 - SRM

The Netherlands

• Specific requirements for Member States with negligible BSE risk status

SRM= (i) the skull excluding the mandible and including the brain and eyes, and the spinal cord of animals aged over 12 months

• COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2015/1162 of 15 July 2015

SRM VT

-VT all SRM materials are coloured with methyleenblue.

- Not NL animalsvertebral column from carcasses > 30 months is removed

carcasses < 30 months have blue stripe on label

-shot hole and foramen magnum are closed after

removing brain stem (medulla oblongata).

- Spinal cord is removed by suction

closing shot hole

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removing brain stem

closing foramen magnum

removing of the spinal cord

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