Thanks for the link to the ehem article. Could they be any less specific? Any idea where they found this contaminated animal?
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=a4uJHstXi1MY&refer=canada
Canada
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "USDA Says Suspect Mad-Cow Animal Was Born Before 1997 Feed Ban"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The animal involved in the latest possible U.S. mad cow case was born before August 1997, when the government imposed new feed rules designed to prevent the spread of the brain-wasting livestock illness, the Department of Agriculture said.
USDA spokesman Ed Loyd, while not providing the birth date or other details, said the animal was born before the U.S. and Canada banned the use of ground-up parts of cattle in livestock feed as a protein source. Scientists say cattle contract mad cow disease, clinically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, by eating infected parts of other animals.
That means that if tests confirm that the animal was infected, it may have contracted the disease prior to the 1997 ban, and that the feed restrictions have been working as designed, said Dan Vaught, a livestock analyst with A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. in St. Louis."