OPINION: USDA mad cow madness - (Los Angeles Times)
June 19, 2008 – 11:35 pmWhen is a worthwhile test for mad cow disease not worthwhile? According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it’s when a private company uses the test.
At least, that’s part of the argument the USDA has been using to keep a beef producer from screening the carcasses of all its cattle, saying that although the federal agency relies on the rapid-screen test for high-risk cattle, the test would be “worthless” in the hands of Creekstone Farms.
Knowing that customers, especially foreign ones such as Japan and South Korea, remain wary of the USDA’s spotty screening program, the Kansas meat company has been fighting the agency for four years for the right to use the state-of-the-art testing lab it built. The rapid-screen test is not completely accurate, but it has been useful enough for the USDA to employ. Creekstone still would not be able to legitimately label its products as free of bovine […]
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