"We don't have mad cow disease in the United States. Since the meat and bone meal originated from U.S. cattle, they also do not have mad cow disease," smoothed over Dr. Konrad Eugster, the director of the Texas Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at Texas A&M University. Though the Purina Mills action is a violation of US safeguards, "at this time it is not a public health concern."
When a woman was hospitalized Amarillo in 2008 with possible variant CJD, fears were similarly assuaged. In fact Ted McCollum, beef cattle specialist with the Amarillo office of Texas AgriLife Extension was so sure it was nothing, he called the woman's case "sporadic"--not from eating infected food-- before tests were even done, to quiet tumbling beef futures markets at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Expect similar protection of beef markets not food consumers this week.
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Martha Rosenberg's first book, Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health, with the complete history of mad cow disease in the US, has just been released by Prometheus Books.
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