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God Bless America!
Another Mad Cow
suspected in CAN
Mad cow case suspected, agency says
Thu,
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency raised the possibility
of a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, early Thursday
morning.
Preliminary tests finished on Wednesday showed positive
results in a 10-year-old dairy cow, the agency said.
It offered few other details, except to warn that the
findings aren't conclusive. Final results are expected within three to five
days.
Canadian officials said they normally wouldn't publicly
release results until the disease had been confirmed, but felt the
"Given the unique situation created by the United
States' border announcement ... it was decided that the most prudent action
would be to publicly announce the available information and provide stakeholders
with a full understanding of the current situation," the agency said.
Less than 24 hours earlier, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture said it would reopen its border to nearly all Canadian exports of
beef and live cattle beginning March 7.
The department recognized
Canadian ranchers and feedlot operators reacted with relief
to the change, which would allow live animals under 30 months old and a wider
variety of cuts of beef to be shipped south.
Their industry plunged into crisis when the Americans
imposed the ban in May 2003, after a single case of BSE showed up in
It isn't yet clear what impact the new suspected case will
have, if any, on the
The Canadian agency said no part of the animal suspected of
having the disease entered the human-food or animal-feed chains.
Written by CBC News Online staff
cbc.ca