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The UK will change to a testing regime once the OTM rule is dropped: any animal suspected of having the disease will be slaughtered, then tested. Meat and bonemeal feed, the suspected catalyst for BSE infection, is banned and so-called ‘specified risk material’ (SRM), such as heads, some offal, most of the vertebrae and all spinal cords, is not permitted for sale. With no proof that nvCJD (the human form of the disease) is spread by eating meat from cattle with the disease, the risk can never be fully assessed. The best way to be sure that beef is safe is to have a full history of the herd from which it was supplied. The new beef labelling laws provide full traceability, but there is nothing like buying from a herd that has always been closed, i.e. one where animals are never bought in.