Summary
A s many of the remaining lambs from the 2008 crop move closer towards being 12 months old, farmers are once again finding they have sheep being devalued due to their having erupted their first permanent incisor tooth.
The eruption of this tooth is the accepted means by which a sheep is deemed to be 12 months old - and as such they become subject to TSE-related controls on spinal cord removal.See the full content of this document
Extract
Call for End to Sheep Carcass Splitting
In the UK the only means by which the Food Standards Agency will currently accept spinal cord removal being undertaken is by the carcass being split into two, which often results in it b...
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