Canada likely dealing with fifth mad cow case
Kathy Jones
Food Consumer
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A six-year-old dairy cow from a farm in British Columbia is being tested for mad cow disease, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This is bad news for Canadian ranchers who are still smarting from a ban on exporting their beef products to the United States two years ago.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that the cow was a the purebred Holstein and tests were underway at Winnipeg's National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease to determine if the animal was suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE or more commonly mad cow disease.
This new development has sent shockwaves through the U.S. cattle markets since the animal was born in April 2000, three years after the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban was put in place to prevent the disease from spreading among animals.
If this case were confirmed to be BSE or mad cow disease, it would be B.C.'s first homegrown case and Canada's fifth case since May 2003.
The animal in question is roughly the same age as the cow with confirmed BSE found in Alberta in January this year.
Apr 16, 2006
Kathy Jones
Food Consumer
___________
A six-year-old dairy cow from a farm in British Columbia is being tested for mad cow disease, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This is bad news for Canadian ranchers who are still smarting from a ban on exporting their beef products to the United States two years ago.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said that the cow was a the purebred Holstein and tests were underway at Winnipeg's National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease to determine if the animal was suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE or more commonly mad cow disease.
This new development has sent shockwaves through the U.S. cattle markets since the animal was born in April 2000, three years after the ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban was put in place to prevent the disease from spreading among animals.
If this case were confirmed to be BSE or mad cow disease, it would be B.C.'s first homegrown case and Canada's fifth case since May 2003.
The animal in question is roughly the same age as the cow with confirmed BSE found in Alberta in January this year.
Apr 16, 2006
