EU lifts ban on animal by-products in pig feed

The EU has lifted its ban on the use of animal byproducts for animal feed. The proposed change in legislation allows processed animal protein (PAPs) from pigs to be used in poultry feed, and from poultry to be used in pig feed. While most EU member states have endorsed the change, France and Ireland have abstained. On 2 July, the EU Council voted unanimously to adopt the TSE regulation. In the wake of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis in 1994, a ban on the use of processed anima