how old can cows be to go into food chain
Now the Government has introduced a BSE Testing System toreplace one of the controls that has banned cattle aged over 30 months from the food chain. This aims to ensure the continuinghigh level of protection of consumers in the UK.esearch shows that, by the most likely estimates, the risk from BSEtesting of older cattle, instead of banning them completely, willresult in less than one additional case of vCJD occurring in humansover the next 60 years. The worst-case scenario is that there couldbe 2.5 additional cases.