Friday, February 13, 2015

Another BSE cow in Alberta

An Alberta cow has died with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in her brain, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it won’t impact beef exports.

That’s radically different from when the first case was detected in Alberta in May, 2003, and led to an export ban and a financial catastrophe for Canadian farmers and beef packers.

“Canada continues to be designated a ‘controlled BSE risk’ country and the case should not affect beef exports,” Canadian Press reports from its contacts with the CFIA.

The CFIA is trying to track down how this cow got BSE, also called mad cow’s disease”.

The disease was detected in routine surveillance.