MAD COW PANEL
February 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US government has been urged to further tighten safeguards on meat and animal feed by an independent international panel, made up of five scientists from Europe, New Zealand and the United States. It has recommended that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) test all high-risk cattle, such as those that die on farms or are too ill to walk, and also do random sampling of healthy cattle more than 30 months old. One panellist estimated there still could be two or three other cases of the disease in North America. USDA usually tests 20,000 of ...
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