NR AUPZ
AU Hofmann,K.
TI Prophylaxis of BSE by controlling meat and bone meals - The ELISA heating test and the criterias for assessment
OT BSE-Prophylaxe durch Tiermehlkontrolle - Der ELISA-Erhitzungstest und seine Bewertungskriterien
QU Fleischwirtschaft 2000 Apr 5; 80(4): 140-3
PT article
AB The BSE epidemic among cattle has yet not been conquered. Inadequately heated meat and bone meals have caused it. The situation will beconsiderably improved when the production of the material is adopted to the legal regulations. In one of the recent reports of the EU commission about veterinary inspection visits it is stated: "not one member, except one, followed the decission completely". This fact is very regrettable as there exists a test with which the heating effect can be assured in the final product; it is the ELISA meat meal heating test worked out in Kulmbach (HOFMANN, 1996). The test enables the monitoring of the effectiveness of heating in the meat meal plants and to control the "material flow". Its application in the EU would exclude inadequately heated meat meals from the feed and finally will help to elimate the reasons for BSE, Two interlaboratory trials, one in Germany and one in the EU, have confirmed the practicability and reliability of the ELISA-test. The criteria for the assessment of proper heated meat meals (R < 3, 1, PK < 20,4) have been established with respect to the legal regulations. A general lowering of these limitation values is neither necessary nor justified at the present situation of regulation, It implies the danger of false-positive results.
SP deutsch
PO Deutschland