AR-News: (US) USDA aims to complete Texas cow probe this week

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WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to
find out by the end of this week why the government failed to conduct a
mad cow test on a condemned animal in Texas, a senior official told
Reuters on Wednesday.

On Monday, the USDA said it had not followed standard procedures when it
did not test a condemned cow at the Lone Star Beef plant in San Angelo, Texas.

The disclosure came as the Bush administration tries to convince foreign
importers of U.S. beef to relax their trade bans, in place since the
discovery of mad cow disease in Washington state late last year.

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