winepressnews.com Last week a case of mad cow disease was reportedly detected a South Carolina meat processing plant, causing alarm of a potential outbreak though the likelihood is slim.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a press release on May19th, discussing the reported case, what’s being done about it, and the dangers of the disease:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurologic disease of cattle, in an approximately five-year-old or older beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina. This animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply or to human health in the United States. Given the United States’ negligible risk status for BSE, we do not expect any trade impacts as a result of this finding.
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