Tuesday, December 18. 2007
Canadian food inspection agency confirms mad cow disease in 13-year-old animal
OTTAWA: Canada confirmed a new case of mad cow disease on Tuesday, the country's 11th case since the disease was first discovered in 2003.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the cow's carcass entered the human food or animal feed chains.
The animal was identified by the national monitoring program as a 13-year-old cow from Alberta. The program targets cattle most at risk and has tested about 190,000 animals since 2003.
The animal, from an unidentified farm, was born before the implementation of Canada's feed ban in 1997.