Is BSE affecting cattle in the United States?
A case was reported in the US on Dec. 23, 2003, by the US Department of Agriculture. Read more here. Federal and state agencies have taken a series of actions to prevent the introduction of BSE into the US food supply. For example, to prevent BSE from entering the United States, firm restrictions were placed on the importation of live ruminants and ruminant products including meat, meat-and-bone meal, offals, and glands from countries where BSE was known to exist. These restrictions were later extended to include importation of ruminants and certain ruminant products not only from BSE-positive countries, but also countries thought to be at high risk for BSE, even if the disease hadn’t been identified in those countries. In addition, FDA prohibits the use of most mammalian protein in the manufacture of animal feeds given to ruminants because this kind of feeding practice is believed to have initiated and amplified the outbreak of BSE in the United Kingdom. Is BSE, the disease that affec
