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Article: Has it come to.... mad chicken disease? Bovine proteins showing up in Dutch poultry. (Meat Market Woes).(Brief Article)
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- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Bovine proteins discovered in Dutch chicken breasts by inspectors in Ireland have raised fears that BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or Mad Cow Disease) could have gotten into chickens.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) had been asked by the UK's Food Standards Authority (FSA) to conduct sensitive tests on 30 samples of chicken imported from Dutch companies whose chicken fillers were found earlier this year to contain undeclared pig proteins.
FSAI scientists reported May 22 that 17 of the samples contained foreign DNA. Seven had bovine DNA, seven had pig DNA and the remaining three samples contained DNA from both cattle and pigs. Eight of ...