SWITZERLAND: SWITZERLAND IS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE MEAT AND BONE ANIMAL FEED DESPITE A CALL FOR A EUROPEAN-WIDE BAN

Record ID: 648640

  • Title: SWITZERLAND: SWITZERLAND IS CONTINUING TO PRODUCE MEAT AND BONE ANIMAL FEED DESPITE A CALL FOR A EUROPEAN-WIDE BAN
  • Date: 28th November 2000
  • Summary: LYSS, NEAR BERNE, SWITZERLAND (NOVEMBER 28, 2000)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV INTERIOR OF SWITZERLAND'S BIGGEST ANIMAL FEED PRODUCER CENTRAVO 0.03 2. SV OF ANIMAL CARCASSES (WASTE) 0.07 3. LV WORKER CARRYING ANIMAL CARCASSES 0.16 4. LV WORKER SPRAYING ANIMAL CARACASSES 0.22 5. SV/CU BURNERS (2 SHOTS) 0.28 6. LV HANS HOFER, CENTRAVO'S DIRECTOR, WALKING AROUND MEAT AND BONE ANIMAL FEED STOCKS 0.36 7. MCU (French) CENTRAVO'S DIRECTOR HANS HOFER SAYING: "There are discussions to stop meat and bone animal feed, and under these conditions our main customer, the Netherlands, decided to halt imports. As we can't sell inside Switzerland, we will have to find other ways to disencumber ourselves of it" 0.58 8. CU BAG WITH ANIMAL FEED 1.02 9. MCU (French) HOFER SAYING: "We continue to produce meat and bone animal feed because there is no other way to get rid of all the (animal) waste. We have to make stockable products like fat and meal" 1.15 10. CU OF ANIMAL MEAL 1.21 11. MCU (French) HOFER SAYING: "There are no risks (to stock animal meal), this meal is not dangerous. But we still have a few uncertainties about its infectiousness because there were cases lately." 1.56 12. SLV/CU WORKER STOCKING ANIMAL MEAL ON A TRAIN (4 SHOTS) 2.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th December 2000 12:00
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  • Location: LYSS, NEAR BERNE, SWITZERLAND
  • Country: Switzerland
  • Reuters ID: LVA69P84SGRNN8HUH0F5FRZDKL87
  • Story Text: Switzerland is continuing to produce meat and bone
    animal feed despite a call for a European Union-wide ban amid
    a growing consumer fear about mad cow disease and its human
    variant nvCJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease).



    The director of Centravo, Switzerland's biggest
    animal meal plant, said on Tuesday (November 28) it was
    continuing to produce meat and bone animal feed. Meat and bone
    animal feed is believed to be the source of mad cow disease.

    However, it cannot export any of the produce to the
    Netherlands following an import ban imposed on Monday
    (November 27).

    "We continue to produce meat and bone animal feed because
    we don't have other ways to deal with all the animal waste,"
    Centravo's director Hans Hofer said.

    Hofer said Centravo had to halt exports on Monday when its
    main customer in the Netherlands temporarily suspended
    contracts amid a planned import halt by the European Union.

    That left the Centravo factory with the problem of what
    to do with its animal meal. It will have to store or destroy
    its supplies if it cannot find domestic buyers.

    Centravo had been exporting around 200 tonnes of extracted
    fat and 500 tonnes of animal meal to the Netherlands every
    week.

    Swiss exports of animal meal normally go via Germany or
    France, but Germany plans to ban imports in a bid to contain
    mad cow disease, known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy
    (BSE). France banned imports two weeks ago.

    Switzerland already bans feeding animal meal to ruminants
    and the federal veterinary office suggested earlier this month
    that the ban should be extended to all animals.


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