Canada Confirms Case of Mad Cow Disease*

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OTTAWA - Canada confirmed a new case of mad cow disease on Tuesday, the
country's 11th case since the disease was first discovered there in 2003.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the cow's carcass
entered the human food or animal feed chains.

The animal was identified as a 13-year-old cow from Alberta by the
national monitoring program, which targets cattle most at risk for the
disease also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and has tested
about 190,000 animals since 2003.

The animal, from an unidentified farm, was born before the
implementation of Canada's feed ban in 1997.

They expect to detect a small number of cases over the next 10 years as
Canada progresses toward its goal of eliminating the disease from the
national cattle herd.

"This detection confirms the ongoing high level of commitment and
stewardship on the part of Canadian cattle producers to food safety and
animal health," the CFIA said in a statement, saying it did not expect
the latest discovery to affect Canada's international standing as a
country with a controlled risk for BSE.

Eating meat products with infected tissue is linked to a rare, fatal
illness, variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, that has killed more than
150 people worldwide, most of them in Britain.