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| Mad Cow - Canadian Born - Canadian Fed |
| 2003-12-31 |
| Canadian food safety investigators have established a tentative link between an Edmonton rendering plant and the U.S. cow found to be infected with mad cow disease, the Edmonton Journal reported Wednesday. The plant may have provided contaminated materials to mills that mixed feed for the Alberta farm where the infected cow was born - as well as to another farm in the province where Canada’s first and only case of mad cow disease was discovered in May. Let’s put a cattle guard on that "Friendship Fence". "Right now, it’s possible that the feed both for this cow and the one found in May contained materials from one rendering plant in the Edmonton area," Tom Spiller of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said, according to the paper. Spiller is heading the investigation into the feed sources of both animals. The Edmonton plant’s rendering materials came entirely from northern Alberta, the paper said. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Argentina already has BSE problems, they aren't going to benefit too much. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-31 12:20:08 PM |
| #4 i think the east asians already have an embargo on Canadian beef. That plus embargo of US beef, means high beef prices in Japan, etc, and boon for Argentina and Australia. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-12-31 12:16:32 PM |
| #3 Glad I only ate fish & chips when I was in Edmonton. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-31 12:11:44 PM |
| #2 Feed body parts to an animal that normally eats only plant matter and it's no surprise that problems (to put it mildly) eventually crop up. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-31 12:06:09 PM |
| #1 oooo, bad karma coming back to Canada... I wonder how big their beef export industry is ? It will be interesting to see if the current embargo on US beef exports by various nations is dropped and switched to Canada and how soon. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H. 2003-12-31 12:05:36 PM |