Administrative/Regulatory
May 10, 2012
Mad Cow in Central Cal: Is USDA program adequate?
Recent discovery of mad cow disease in California questions the effectiveness of USDA safeguards. By Leslie T. Krasny of Keller and Heckman LLP
On April 24, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a 10-year-old California dairy cow had tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), known as mad cow disease. BSE is one of a group of progressive neurodegenerative diseases - transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) - caused by unconventional disease agents, probably prions (abnormal proteins), that have a long incubation period, and are resistant to treatme...
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