Personal Injury Law

Greek Scientists Report Ability of Farmed Fish to Carry BSE

A group of Greek scientists, led by Evgenia Salta, are reporting that farmed sea bream, a commercially farmed fish, can carry and develop BSE or "mad cow" disease when fed contaminated feed.

While this is not a finding of contaminated fish in the wild, the ability of such fish to develop contaminated brain tissue after exposure may be  problematic.   According to this article, the study authors'  conclude:

"the possibility that the affected sea bream brain tissue might be infectious, must be taken seriously in any consideration to lift EU feed bans, especially those related to farmed fish.'

The study did not investigate whether contaminated fish had any ability to contaminate other fish. 

Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).