Three more countries — Taiwan, Chile and Jordan — have imposed restrictions on Brazilian beef after it was revealed in early December the country had a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 2010, according
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Five Importing Nations Ban Beef from Brazil Over Mad Cow
Five counties – not including the United States — have now banned Brazilian beef entirely as a precaution after the country’s handling of an incident of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 2010. Japan, China, South…
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Brazil Works to Minimize Reaction to Mad Cow Incident
Brazil continues to downplay its first and belated report of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, and its strategy may be working. Except for Japan, Brazil’s 2010 Mad Cow incident is not resulting…
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Brazil Kept Mad Cow Secret for Two Years
Enough beef to feed one million Americans for a year has been imported from Brazil without the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) mitigations that are supposed to be applied to countries where BSE is known to…
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Mad Cow Research May Be Key to Treating Human Disorders
The Twentieth Century’s most feared foodborne illness – the fatal Mad Cow Disease – may be the era’s key to treating a long list of diseases involving deformed proteins, according to a report in the…
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Wisconsin’s Black Earth Market Recalls 99 Pounds of Beef Tongues
Tonsils, a specific risk material (SRM) for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), must be completed separated beef tongue products. But at Wisconsin’s Black Earth Meat Market Inc., the tonsils might not have been completed removed on…
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USDA Shuts Down CA Beef Plant After Video Shows Inhumane Treatment
The U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrew inspectors from Central Valley Meat in Hanford, California on Sunday after an undercover video alleged egregious violations of federal humane slaughter laws. The USDA was given footage from Compassion…
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Neither Human Health nor Food Safety Were Ever At Risk in 4th Mad Cow
An April-to-August investigation has closed the book on the fourth case of Mad Cow Disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in the United States. The California Holstein discovered last April was an isolated incident, poising…
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Mad Cow: No Problems Found in Feed Records
Investigators found no irregularities in the feed records at the California dairy where a 10-year-old cow last month was confirmed to have had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease), the U.S. Department of…
Atypical BSE Has Never Led To Human vCJD – But Could It?
There is good news and bad news about the “L-type” atypical mad cow phenotype, found in the nearly 11-year-old, dead dairy cow discovered two weeks ago in California.
The good news is no human has…
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