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Global animal health agency says Canada's mad cow risk is controlled

CALGARY (CP) - Canada's mad cow protection measures have earned the second-highest safety designation from the world's leading animal health organization, a stamp which the cattle industry hopes will translate into more exports.

"It's a very significant step," Hugh Lynch-Staunton, president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, said Tuesday after the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health officially categorized Canada as a controlled-risk country for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

"It gives an independent, scientific assessment of the BSE situtation in Canada," he said.

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Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on May 29, 2007 (boomark / email).