He also called for more inspections of cattle at the slaughterhouse and to ensure that the 1997 feed ban on ground bone meal is not being violated.

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France, which has banned the sale of T-bone steaks and all animal feed made from ground-up cattle, so called meat and bonemeal, had called for a complete ban on the produce in an effort to avoid isolation within the union.

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Tiny particles of rock ground fine by the glaciers that feed it turn the water milky and give it this astonishing, alien colour.

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