Canadian food safety investigators have established a tentative link between an Edmonton rendering plant and the U.S. cow found to be infected with mad cow disease, the Edmonton Journal reported Wednesday. The plant may have provided contaminated materials to mills that mixed feed for the Alberta farm where the infected cow was born - as well as to another farm in the province where Canada’s first and only case of mad cow disease was discovered in May.
Let’s put a cattle guard on that "Friendship Fence".
"Right now, it’s possible that the feed both for this cow and the one found in May contained materials from one rendering plant in the Edmonton area," Tom Spiller of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said, according to the paper. Spiller is heading the investigation into the feed sources of both animals. The Edmonton plant’s rendering materials came entirely from northern Alberta, the paper said. |