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Jun 25th, 2005 at 10:32 pm by Susie

Although the Agriculture Department confirmed Friday that a cow that died last year was infected with mad cow disease, a test the agency conducted seven months ago indicated that the animal had the disease. The result was never publicly disclosed.

The delay in confirming the United States’ second case of mad cow disease seems to underscore what critics of the agency have said for a long time: that there are serious and systemic problems in the way the Agriculture Department tests animals for mad cow.

Indeed, the lengthy delay occurred despite the intense national interest in the disease and the fact that many countries have banned shipments of beef from the United States because of what they consider to be lax testing policies.

Until Friday, it was not public knowledge that an “experimental” test had been performed last November by an Agriculture Department laboratory on the brain of a cow suspected of having mad cow disease, and that the test had come up positive.

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on 27 Jun 2005 at 7:45 am1Lawrence

This is the ‘ownership society’, you are responsible for your own well-being.

It is not the government’s job to take care of you.

You think they have time to check for disease? Well, who do you think they are? your parents?

Seriously, what else have they neglected to tell us about?

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