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Article: Festering friendship: the closed border between Canada and the United States, preventing the entry of live cattle into America, is a continuing lightning rod that threatens to devastate the free trade benefits both nations have enjoyed over time.(canadian beef report)
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- The National Provisioner
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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The May 2003 discovery of Canada's first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) coupled with the first U.S. case in December that same year is re-shaping beef industry businesses on both sides of the fence.
BSE, as a disease, sprouted nearly 20 years ago in the United Kingdom (U.K.) with devastating results to its beef industry, marketing programs, and the health of hundreds of its citizens.
USDA classified BSE as a legally reported disease in 1986, followed in 1989 by an emergency ban on imported ruminants, bovine semen, embryos, and meat and bone meal from the U.K. The permanent ban came from FDA in 1997 against high-risk mammalian products ...