USDA announced Friday an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed in an approximately five-year-old or older beef cow at a slaughter plant in South Carolina. The animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply or to human health in the United States. Given the United States’ negligible risk status for BSE, no trade impacts are expected as a result of the finding, the agency said.
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) confirmed the cow was…
