There is no evidence for excluding cattle under 30 months old from the new deboning and SBO provisions. Dr Sheila Gore, a senior statistician at the Medical Research Council, was making precisley this point in today's newspapers. Apparently, a study was started 7 years ago to determine if dams could pass BSE to their offspring. It was a blind trial, but no results have been released yet. The cattle crisis seems very quiet at the moment - lots of haggling about how many are to be slaughterd, compensation packages for farmers, etc.
Incineration is the required disposal process.
The recent E. coli is also opening a related can of worms with claims that an official report into meat rendering plants was suppressed and diluted considerably - allegedly to minimise the economic impact.