Given the increasing concerns about the BSE incidence and the fact that consumer confidence has been shaken by the discovery of BSE in three cows born after 1997, when the ban on meat and bonemeal was imposed, the situation is fundamentally unacceptable. It has led to An Taisce taking the issue to Europe in the wake of a recent "Prime Time" programme to seek that the material housed in Tipperary be classified immediately as hazardous.