Suspect Mad Cow Case in Canada Won't Stop Trade-USDA
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Canada's latest possible case of mad  cow disease is not expected to cause the United States to  rescind its plans to resume imports of Canadian live cattle, a  U.S. Department of Agriculture official said on Thursday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal officials are still determining whether any cattle from a herd with a mad cow case made it into the food chain, but they insist the risk to Canadians is minuscule.
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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OTTAWA (CP) - A new international trade ruling could save the bacon of thousands of Canadian swine producers who were accused of illegally subsidizing and then dumping their animals into the United States market.
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Canada's cattle and beef industries, battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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Canada has exceeded its target for mad cow testing this year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. All tests have come back negative for the brain-wasting disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the agency says.
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It was almost over. After a year and eight months, the U.S. was finally ready to lift their ban on Canadian live cattle and beef imports -- a ban they put in place in May 2003 when the first case of BSE (aka mad cow disease) was discovered in Alberta. The ban devastated the Canadian beef industry. A cow that would have normally sold for $1,300 was selling for $15 instead. In total, the ban has cost the industry an estimated $5 billion.    But on Dec. 29, 2004, the USDA announced that it recognized Canada as a "minimal-risk region" for BSE and imports of young Canadian cattle would resume March 7, 2005. The new classification meant that Canada could have up to 11 cases of BSE and still be considered a safe country for cattle exports. Canadian cattle farmers rejoiced.    The next day, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported that preliminary tests had turned up another suspected case of mad cow disease in a 10-year-old dairy cow. They confirmed it three days later, but American officials said the announcement would likely not affect their decision to reopen the border.    Then the other shoe dropped.
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Canada, whose exports of beef products are effected by a single case of mad cow disease since may 2003, has exceeded its mad cow testing target for 2004, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday.
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As US Department of Agriculture scientists work to determine whether the nation has its second mad-cow case or another false alarm, a state official says he doesn&#39;t think the suspect animal is from Washington.
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The US could be the victim of a second case of Mad Cow Disease but the Department of Agriculture won&#39;t say where the cow is from.
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WASHINGTON  - The United States said it will resume conditional imports of live Canadian cattle early next year, following a year-and-a-half hiatus caused by a case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - Nineteen months after closing the border to Canadian cattle due to fears about the spread of mad cow disease, the United States announced Wednesday it plans to resume trade in March.
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Canadian veterinary officials will  announce they have found a new case of mad cow disease in a  briefing slated for 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), an agricultural  source told Reuters on Tuesday.
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U.S. Agriculture Department  scientists were still conducting tests late on Monday to  determine if the United States had a second case of the deadly  mad cow disease amid secrecy over where the suspect animal was  raised or slaughtered.
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The Agriculture Department will not allow meat from older cattle when it expands U.S. imports of Canadian beef on March 7, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Wednesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal regulators have proposed banning high risk material from animal feed, pet food and fertilizers, in an effort to prevent mad cow disease.
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Canada said on Thursday it had  discovered a suspected case of mad cow disease, but said the  10-year-old animal in question had not entered the human or  animal feed system.