Suspect Feed Is Traced in Mad Cow Case
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From Times Wire Reports
Canadian officials have traced to two mills the feed that probably caused North America’s two cases of mad cow disease, one in Canada last May and the other in the United States in December.
The feed from the Canadian mills could have contained infectious protein from imported British cattle, said Dr. George Luterbach, an official of a mad cow working group in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He said Canadian law prohibited disclosing the mills’ identity.
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