The Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) have considered the practice of spreading rendering condensate on land and have concluded that as a precautionary measure it should be discontinued on land where cattle may graze.The Environmental Agency published a report on the options for the disposal of treated effluent from a particular rendering plant in June 1997 which showed that all the disposal methods - including the historical method of disposal onto the land surface - present extremely low risks of exposure to BSE infectivity, negligible compared...