The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" id="mwAUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="European Union">European Union</a>'s Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy" id="mwAUE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bovine spongiform encephalopathy">Bovine spongiform encephalopathy</a>).