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OIE Standards
Prevention and control
The measures in the strategy for dealing with BSE are early detection and warning systems and prevention and rapid response measures and mechanisms in place.
- targeted surveillance of occurrences of clinical neurological disease;
- awareness programs to enhance surveillance;
- screening tests at routine slaughter;
- transparency in reporting findings of BSE;
- safeguards on importation of live ruminant species and their products, in accordance with the OIE Terrestrial Code;
- removal of specified risk material (SRM) (brain, spinal column) during slaughter and processing of carcasses;
- prohibit the inclusion of SRM in animal feeds, thus removing potentially contaminated material from the food chain;
- humane destruction of all suspected and susceptible animals exposed to contaminated feed (cohorts);
- appropriate disposal of carcasses and all animal by-products;
- livestock identification to enable effective surveillance and tracing of suspected livestock.