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Article: New mad-cow rule will pose its own dangers
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 23, 2008
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LITITZ, Pa. -- A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow
disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks
of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms,
spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water.
At issue is a Food and Drug Administration rule, set to take
effect in April, that will prohibit the use of the brains and spinal
cords of older cattle as ingredients in livestock feed and pet food.
Some of the rendering plants that grind up carcasses for use in
feed have already announced they will stop accepting dead cattle
from farms because it would be too costly to remove the banned
organs. Other renderers are likely to raise the ...