THE United States has reported another atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy – its first since 2018, and seventh overall.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the latest case on Friday from a beef cow tested at a slaughter plant in South Carolina.
The animal, which was estimated to be at least five years old, never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply or to human health, the USDA stressed.
The radio frequency ID tag present on the animal connected it with a beef herd in Tennessee. APHIS and veterinary…
