AR-News: (US WA) Dangerous cow parts still enter food supply

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Even before the nation's first mad-cow case, few Americans chose to dine on 
cow brains, spinal cords or intestines. 
Learning that those parts are most likely to carry the disease only 
strengthens the aversion. 
But despite new rules adopted in December to keep the riskiest tissues out of 
the food chain, some of the unsavory ingredients can still wind up on the 
table, hidden behind innocuous labels like "beef flavoring" or as accidental 
contamination in taco filling or processed meat. 
People can get a fatal, human version of the disease by eating tissue from 
infected animals, though no one knows what dose it takes. 
Cows can become infected by eating less than one-thousandth of an ounce of 
brain tissue from a sick animal, a panel of international experts said in a 
report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month. 




full story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001858777_madbrains16m0.html 

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