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Article: 4 more states, Guam received meat from infected cow, official says.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- December 28, 2003
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Byline: Frank James
WASHINGTON _ Four more Western states and a U.S. territory were added to the list of places that may have received meat from a slaughtered Holstein with mad cow disease, a federal official said Sunday.
But authorities issued assurances that consumers were at "virtually zero" risk even if they ate meat from the infected animal.
The USDA has issued a recall for 10,000 pounds of meat from the sick dairy cow and 19 others that were slaughtered at the same time at Moses Lake, Wash.
Added to the recall Sunday were Alaska, Montana, Hawaii, Idaho and the Pacific island territory of Guam, said Dr. Ken Petersen of the ...