Sauniere
04-18-2006, 02:19 AM
Good thing I don't eat beef...
http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/BC_cow_tests_positive_for_mad_cow_disease.shtml
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Federal officials in Canada have confirmed Sunday that the 6-year-old dairy cow in Canada did die from the dreaded mad cow disease. This is now Canada's fifth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE since May 2003, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.
George Luterbach, a senior veterinarian for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced the positive diagnosis on CTV News. "Our investigation has taken us back to the farm, which is known to be the birth farm of this cow, and we're in the process of assembling, through farm records, those herd mates that were of similar age and likely consumed the same feed," he said, adding that all these animals would be destroyed.
It was again stressed that no part of the infected animal had entered human or animal feed systems. The cow, a Holstein, was identified as a suspected case by Canada's BSE surveillance program last week, but initial tests had proved inconclusive and hence brain samples were sent to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases in Winnipeg for final tests. The results were returned yesterday...
http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/BC_cow_tests_positive_for_mad_cow_disease.shtml
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Federal officials in Canada have confirmed Sunday that the 6-year-old dairy cow in Canada did die from the dreaded mad cow disease. This is now Canada's fifth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE since May 2003, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said.
George Luterbach, a senior veterinarian for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced the positive diagnosis on CTV News. "Our investigation has taken us back to the farm, which is known to be the birth farm of this cow, and we're in the process of assembling, through farm records, those herd mates that were of similar age and likely consumed the same feed," he said, adding that all these animals would be destroyed.
It was again stressed that no part of the infected animal had entered human or animal feed systems. The cow, a Holstein, was identified as a suspected case by Canada's BSE surveillance program last week, but initial tests had proved inconclusive and hence brain samples were sent to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases in Winnipeg for final tests. The results were returned yesterday...