Pakistan has lifted ban on import of feed ingredients from Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) infected countries commonly known as the mad cow disease. Commerce Ministry on Friday issued a SRO saying that now there would no restriction on import of feed ingredients from BSE infected states.
"This ban shall however not apply on the import of feed ingredients, namely - milk enhancers, concentrates, growth promoters, enzymes, fish meal replacers, transmuted into premixes and growth promoters, feather meal and poultry meal which have originated from vegetable, poultry, mineral and sea sources from the aforesaid BSE infected countries." When an official of the Commerce Ministry was contacted and questioned that who asked the ministry to lift ban on import of feed ingredients, he declined to respond.