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Meat Meal The Philippines has lifted the temporary ban on importation of Australian meat and bone meal (MBM) feeds after international veterinary authorities certified that such products are now free of the "mad cow" disease. Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap issued the directive after the Animal Health Organization adopted a resolution recognizing Australia as one of its member-countries free of the "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy" or the mad cow disease, which is a transmissible, fatal brain ailment afflicting cattle. Authorities have raised the possibility that "mad cow" could be the cause of a new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human brain-wasting illness.In lifting the ban, Yap said that MBM and other inedible products are regulated and verified by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service and are processed under the Australian Standard for Hygienic Rendering of Animal Products. "The Australian Standard used in Australian MBM, meat meal, bone meal, blood meal, feather meal, poultry meal, poultry by-product meal, tallow, poultry oil, and fish meal production is designed to eliminate pathogens relevant to Australia and prevent re-contamination of processed rendered products," Yap said. Australia currently exports MBM to Indonesia, Canada, the United States, European Union, Malaysia, South Africa, China, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.