Alternative cattle slaughtering technologies and/or measures reducing the dissemination of central nervous system tissue during head handling, harvesting of cheek meat and tongue and carcass splitting - A review

Veterinarski Arhiv

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-36

  Ramantanis, Spyridon Basilios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE); Dissemination of central nervous system (CNS) tissue; Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION;

EID: 33645758820     PISSN: 03725480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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