What is the BSE controls review looking at?

When the BSE controls review was announced in March this year the Prime Minister gave the Food Standards Agency (FSA) the following job to do:

'To review the current main measures to protect the public against BSE/vCJD in relation to the food chain. The review will consider both the adequacy of the measures to protect public health and their proportionality to the assessed risk, both currently and in relation to the projected decline of BSE in the UK. The measures to be examined will specifically include the ban on entry into the food chain of cattle over the age of 30 months at slaughter, the ban on the feeding of mammalian meat and bone meal to any famed animals and the removal at slaughter and controlled disposal of specified risk material from cattle, sheep and goats.'

In the Action Plan for Farming, issued at the Downing Street summit, responsibility for the report was given to the Food Standards Agency which would be supported with expert advice from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC). The FSA was to form a stakeholder group including representatives of the UK Health and Agriculture Departments, consumer organisations and industry experts to contribute throughout the period of the review to the Agency's consideration of the issues.