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The Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) in Weybridge, United Kingdom, confirmed on 3 March that Sweden is the latest country to be hit by the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) virus. The European Commission is therefore reconsidering the grounds for the special derogation for Sweden from the requirement to test all cattle intended for human consumption, laid down in Regulation 999/2001/EC outlining rules on the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). Sweden instead carries out random tests on about one in 10,000 healt

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