AR-News: (US-tx) USDA gathering information on destroyed cow

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(04-30) 17:16 PDT SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) --

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is gathering information on a cow that
was ordered destroyed at a West Texas meatpacking plant, a USDA official
said Friday.

USDA spokesman Ed Loyd said he didn't have confirmation on why the cow was
killed Wednesday, and said it wasn't immediately clear if a tissue sample
had been taken for a test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known
as mad cow disease.

"Clearly there was some indication that there was a problem with this
animal," Loyd said. "We cannot jump to the conclusion that it has BSE.
That's why there's testing done." 

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/04/30/financial2016EDT0423.DTL&type=health

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