Shortening of the bovine tongue according to regulation (EC) 999/2001 is not complying with the current legal definition of specified risk material - A macroscopical and histological preliminary study

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 102-104

  Kuhne M ^a   Klein, G ^a   Gasse, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EUROPEAN UNION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; SAFETY; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STANDARD; TONGUE; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; TONGUE; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 15944378899     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2005.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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