Date: May, 2003
Abstract: The 1990s was a turbulent decade for the meat industry. Several food-safety-related incidents had a huge impact on the European meat industry as a whole. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the whole of Europe, dioxin in feed components in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the UK and the Netherlands as well as Classical Swine Fever (CSF) in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Germany created a structural need to change production methods in Western...
Research Type: Industry Note