A quantitative assessment of the risk of exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy via meat-and-bone meal in Japan

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 221-238

  Yamamoto, Takehisa ^a   Tsutsui, Toshiyuki ^a   Nonaka, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Sota ^a   Nishiguchi, Akiko ^a   Yamane, Itsuro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

BSE; Meat and bone meal; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; BONE MEAL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CHICKEN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; JAPAN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; JAPAN; MALE; MINERALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POULTRY DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE;

EID: 33745726017     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-051X.2006.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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