CNN/AP: Beef (from Canada) recalled under mad cow rules

[DeepModem Mom]

Beef recalled under mad cow rules
U.S. cites 'minimal chance' for risk from Canadian animal
Monday, August 22, 2005


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beef banned under mad cow disease rules was shipped to wholesalers in a half-dozen states and is now being recalled by a Wisconsin beef plant.

The 1,856 pounds of beef came from a Canadian cow. Inspectors there determined the cow was eligible for shipment to the United States, but a Canadian audit two weeks later said the cow was too old to be allowed inside the U.S....

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating and has suspended the veterinarian who certified the cow, said Francine Lord, import-export manager for the agency's animal health division. She said the agency finished its audit last week and notified U.S. officials Thursday....

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Green Bay Dressed Beef of Green Bay, Wisconsin, processed the cow on August 4 and distributed the meat to wholesalers in Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The department and the company are trying to find out how much beef wound up in retail stores, Cohen said.

The department issued code numbers for recalled cases of beef sent to distributors, but it was unknown whether beef that reached the retail level would have carried the same numbers....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/22/mad.cow.ap/index.html

[tives12]

1. vegetarian

This is when I'm very glad I'm a vegetarian.

[Maple]

2. See..illness doesn't matter

Only age does

[Kagemusha]

3. I know a lot of DU'ers despise Canadian beef but,

the system worked here, and people on both sides of the border should be eating meat from animals raised under better, stricter rules... at least this is an error that got a) caught, b) rectified, c) concerned a better safe than sorry policy, rather than knowledge this cow was afflicted with mad cow disease.

[Firenze777]

4. I cannot convince

my college age daughter to avoid red meat. It worries me greatly.