EU to spend 98 mln euros on mad cow disease tests
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The European Commission will spend nearly 100 million euros ($123.9 million) next year on cattle testing across the 25-nation bloc to try to stop the spread of mad cow disease to humans, it said on Friday.
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EU vets agree to lift the ban on UK meat and animal product exports, imposed after the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
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LONDON  - Thousands of people who received plasma or other blood products in Britain received letters from the government Tuesday warning that they may have been exposed to the deadly human form of mad cow disease.
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This article by Diane Farsetta takes a closer look at why the USDA bans independent testing for mad cow disease. When one beef producer wanted to test its own products in order to meet international safety
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The European Union has authorized  imports of four genetically modified (GMO) crop products for  sale across its 27 national markets for the next 10 years, the  European Commission said on Wednesday.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is testing the remains of a dairy cow from Alberta suspected of having bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. An initial set of tests failed to rule out the possibility the 4-year-old cow died of BSE.
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The EU Commission hopes for a vaccine next year to protect farms against the bluetongue strain moving northwards through Europe, and is planning rule changes to help, a spokesman said Monday.
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Britain said Tuesday a goat diagnosed as having the brain-wasting disease scrapie in 1990 may have had mad cow disease, but it would take up to two years of further tests to confirm this.
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European scientists confirm what is thought to be the first known case of "mad cow" disease in a goat.
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OTTAWA - Canada has exceeded its target for mad cow testing this year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. All tests have come back negative for the brain-wasting disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the agency says.
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A SECOND CASE OF BSE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MAD COW DISEASE, HASN&#39;T BEEN CERTIFIED YET HERE IN THE US. THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SAYS A RAPID SCREENING TEST ON A COW IN AN UNDISCLOSED STATE IS INCONCLUSIVE.
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Further tests are carried out as it is confirmed a cow on a North East farm has the bluetongue virus.
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AMES, Iowa -- The US Department of Agriculture lab in Ames is looking into a possible case of mad cow disease in the United States.
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Canada&#39;s Food Inspection Agency said multiple screening tests indicate a 10-year-old dairy cow may have mad cow disease. Today&#39;s announcement comes a day after the US said it would lift a ban on cattle imports from Canada in March.
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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO  - An animal suspected of  having mad cow disease was given a clean bill of health in a  second round of sophisticated testing, the U.S. Agriculture  Department said on Tuesday after cattle prices soared in  expectation of the news.
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A final laboratory test has confirmed an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second case Canada has found in its herd, an industry source briefed by veterinary officials said on Sunday.
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The US Department of Agriculture yesterday said it is testing a suspect animal for mad cow disease and would know within a week whether it has discovered the second case in the United States.