The largest meat recall in U.S. history is underway in California. Over 143 million pounds are being recalled. This meat was processed at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company. The plant, situated...
Chronic wasting disease has been found in an elk herd in Saskatchewan, a province of Canada. "REGINA - A large elk farm in Saskatchewan is under quarantine and its animals are to be destroyed after a case of...
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The outbreak of mad cow disease in the UK during the '80s changed the way that cattle are tracked and shipped. We no longer have available many organ meats previously available, notably brains. Some...
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If I said that the Bush administration doesn't want to require meatpackers to test ALL cattle for mad cow disease, many would say I'm wrong, and that I'm just irrationally demonizing the administration.But the...
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"BSE confirmed in Alberta bull BSE case #9. Again from Alberta; preliminary findings suggest the bull was born and raised in Alberta. Which is because of this;The Real Story of Alberta's BSE Crisisclick no link below to read the whole story"
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Daily News
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is testing the remains of a
dairy cow from Alberta suspected of having bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. An initial set of tests failed to
rule out the possibility the 4-year-old cow died of BSE."
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"AP - Canada confirmed on Tuesday its sixth case of mad cow disease and said it would investigate where the cow was born and what other animals may have eaten the same feed."
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"Federal officials have confirmed a new case of mad cow disease — the fifth in Canada since screening began three years ago. A six-year-old dairy cow from British Columbia tested positive for bovine...
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"Reuters - Tests have
confirmed that a six-year-old dairy cow in the Canadian
province of British Columbia suffered from mad cow disease, the
government said on Sunday."
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"The U.S Department of Agriculture is investigating a possible case of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The agency received an inconclusive test result on Friday,...
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"A Canadian neuroscientist claimed to have developed the world's first simple blood test to detect brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and says it may be available within...
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