An EU ban on livestock feed made from animal remains has been lifted in the EU. The 1994 ban was put in place as a result of the BSE (mad cow disease) epidemic of the 1990s.
Cheap feed made from a mix of fat and protein from pigs will now be allowed to be fed to farmed animals such as chickens.
A policy advisor with an EU farmers union said there was no health risk and that farmers are ‘looking forward’ to accessing the cheap feed again, a report in The Guardian claims.
The UK continues to ban the use of these cheap feeds in the fosschain. A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “The UK is committed to maintaining the highest animal welfare and biosecurity standards, and following our departure from the EU there is no legal obligation for us to implement any of these changes”.
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