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BSE in the U.S. – Timeline of Significant Events
December 9, 2003
Following standard protocols, USDA took samples from a Holstein cow, slaughtered at Verns Moses Lake Meats, Moses Lake, Washington, to test for BSE. The cow was a downer (non-ambulatory), but she had shortly before suffered complications from giving birth, and her difficulties walking were thought to stem from that. The samples were sent to USDA's National Veterinary Service Laboratories, Ames , Iowa . Because the animal had no signs of neurological disease at slaughter, the samples were not given high priority for BSE sampling
December 22, 2003
Preliminary tests at USDA's laboratory were positive for BSE, and the laboratory started further testing.
December 23, 2003
USDA's lab used the internationally recognized “gold standard” test on the samples, and confirmed the earlier positive finding. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman in a press conference announced the “presumptive positive” result for BSE—the first case of BSE in the U.S. USDA immediately began traceback measures to find the meat from the BSE-suspect animal and initiatived a “Class II” recall of the meat from the entire day's slaughter at Verns Moses Lake Meats for the day the BSE-suspect cow was slaughtered. 20 animals had been slaughtered that day. The recall was for 10,410 lbs. of meat.
USDA also begins to trace of all animals that could have been infected at the same time as the cow in Washington State .
December 24, 2003
FDA announced that it had dispatched several teams of investigators to find any FDA-regulated products that were or could have been made from the infected cow, including animal feed.
December 25, 2003
The world reference laboratory in Weybridge , England , confirmed that the cow was infected with BSE.
December 27, 2003
USDA announced that the infected cow was mostly likely imported from Canada , and was probably born in April 1997, which was before the BSE feed rules were implemented in the U.S. and Canada .
FDA announced that all the potentially infectious material that could have gone into feed was found before any of it was used to manufacture feed. An estimated 2,000 tons of material was traced and kept out of feed.
December 30, 2003
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a series of rule changes designed to keep suspected BSE animals out of the food chain. The rules included a ban on the use of downer animals and specified risk material.
December 31, 2003
FDA announced that it fully supports the safety policies announced by USDA.
January 6, 2004
USDA announced that DNA evidence proves that the BSE-infected animal came from a dairy farm in Alberta , Canada .
January 26, 2004
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced measures it is taking to increase safeguards against BSE in the U.S. , including changes to the 1997 BSE feed rule and restrictions on the use of material of bovine sources that could be used in products for human consumption.
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