European Parliament 15 May 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1398/02 by Ria Oomen-Ruijten (PPE-DE) to the Commission. The public health implications of prions.

Recently, the Commission adopted decisions to reinforce the control of poultry meat imported from Thailand and to ban the imports from China. Concerning poultry meat imports from Brazil, following a request for increased surveillance by the Commission, problems have been identified recently by certain Member States, which relate to the presence of residues of nitrofurans, a class of