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APHIS Intends to Loosen BSE Restrictions on Bovines, Bovine Products From Ecuador and Serbia

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to loosen requirements on importation of bovines and bovine products from Ecuador and Serbia, it said in a notice. APHIS intends to reclassify Ecuador as having controlled risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and Serbia as having negligible risk, concurring with recommendations recently issued by the World Organization for Animal Health, the agency said. Neither country is currently classified as having controlled or negligible risk of BSE. Comments are due Dec. 24.

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(Federal Register 10/25/19)