FDA MAD COW

BY MONICA DOBIE
A USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel has urged the American government to increase testing for mad cow disease in order to assess if the disease is still present in the country and if so, where. The US Department of Agriculture already plans to test 40,000 cows this year.



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