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Japan Confirms Mad Cow Case
TOKYO - Sep 13/04 - SNS -- Japan's agriculture department confirmed a 5-year-old dairy cow tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, last week at a slaughterhouse in Shisui town, in the southern prefecture of Kumamoto.
Officials said no meat or organs from the animal reached market and the carcass will be incinerated. BSE, or mad-cow disease, is viewed as a human health issue because eating beef from a diseased cow is thought to cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people.
Japan currently tests all cattle before it enters the food supply. The country has also banned feeding meat-and-bone meal to ruminant animals because that is believed to be a vector for movement of the disease through herds.
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