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The Agriculture Department said Thursday that it would scale back testing for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, saying the number of infected animals was far too low to justify the current level of surveillance.
"It's time that our surveillance efforts reflect what we now know is a very, very low level of BSE in the United States," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said as he announced the new testing program for the disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.See the full content of this document
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Testing for Mad Cow Scaled Back
After the disease was found in a Canadian-born dairy cow in Washington state in December 2003, the department tested more than 759,000 animals over 18 months from 2004 to...
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