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Title: FDA moves to minimize risks tied to mad cow disease.(Across Specialties)(Food and Drug Administration)
Author: Heidi Splete
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 32 Issue: 4 Page: 103(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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SILVER SPRING, MD. -- Tracking infected cows, banning the use of cattle feed made from cow parts, and testing cows are three of the actions that the Food and Drug Administration has taken in response to the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known as "mad cow disease," in a cow that entered the United States from Canada.
Despite the flurry of news surrounding the cow, the risk that humans will develop transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) or the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is considered to be low.