Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Risk reduction methods for BSE in U.S. elucidated

Published in Blood Weekly, July 15th, 2004

Risk reduction methods for preventing bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the U.S. is elucidated.

According to a study from the United States, "Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has not been found in the US, but current detection efforts provide little assurance that it does not exist at a low level."

"The US has taken precautionary measures to reduce the risk of importing the disease and the risk of the disease spreading if it were to be found. Those measures include a ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants-a measure the General Accounting Office concluded was not adequately enforced and which failed to halt the disease in the U.K.," J.A....

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