The import restrictions imposed by the Ministries of Public Health and Agriculture two weeks ago against ice-cream, cakes, beverages and other dairy products and by-products from Great Britain and other European nations because of BSE, the so-called “Mad Cow” disease, have been lifted, in large part due to recommendations made to the D.R. by the Panamerican Health Organization, which maintains that those products pose no risk. One restriction that has been maintained, however, is that against medicines from the aforementioned nations made from bovine organs.
19-25 April 1996