Canada's Tenth Mad Cow Rouses Concern South of the Border

Environment News Service, May, 2007 by Frederick Noronha

NEW DELHI, India (ENS) — --> Mad cow disease has been found in a dairy cow on a farm in Delta, British Columbia, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday, the tenth Canadian cow to be found with the fatal disease since 2003. South of the border in the United States, only two cases of mad cow disease have been reported.

American legislators and cattle producers are urging the placement of country of origin labels on meat so consumers can distinguish U.S. from Canadian beef products.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, CFIA, said it has the carcass of the five-and-a-half year old animal and no part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems.

CFIA is now tracing other animals from the same herd in an attempt to determine...

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