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Possible mad cow case found in Italy
Suspected disease at slaughterhouse of
McDonald's supplier
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME, Jan. 15 - Scientists have found Italy's first
suspected case of mad cow disease in a cow at a slaughterhouse
that supplies meat to McDonald's restaurants in Italy and
elsewhere in Europe.
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THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN Lodi, in Italy's northern
Lombardy region, belongs to the Cremonini group. Cremonini is the
exclusive meat supplier for the American fast food giant's
restaurants across Italy, company spokesman Massimiliano Parboni
said Monday.
Parboni couldn't immediately say which other countries
besides Italy get beef from the company.
Until Saturday, when the case was discovered, Italy had
been considered mad cow-free. The only two cases reported there
were two cows in 1994 which had been imported from Britain. 'Mad
cow' takes its toll on France
"We expected it. Italy could not be the exception,"
scientist Maria Caramelli told Canale 5 private TV on Monday.
Caramelli works with a team of scientists testing brain
tissue from the cow. Final tests, to be released on Tuesday, were
expected to confirm the earlier results.
McDonald's, which has 295 restaurants here serving 600,000
customers daily, recently put up signs in eateries across Italy
to reassure consumers about the origin of its beef. It stood by
its Italian supplier Monday, saying the "quality, traceability
and safety" of its beef protect consumers.
"We have full trust in Cremonini, which has the country's
highest quality procedures," said Alessandra di Montezemolo,
European spokeswoman for the U.S. food
Mad cow - the common name for bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or BSE - is a brain-wasting ailment that
scientists believe was spread by recycling meat and bone meal
from infected animals back into cattle feed. BSE wasn't
identified until 1986, but by the mid-1990s, Britain was seeing
tens of thousands of cases a year of infected cattle stumbling
about as if drunk. Feed makers violating rules meant to keep mad
cow disease away: FDA
Then, in 1996, a link was established between BSE and a
new and similar human illness called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease, a horrible crippling of the nervous system followed by
death. So far more than 80 people have died, mostly in Britain.
The public health uproar abated after the European Union
banned exports of British beef and feed in 1996 and millions of
British cows were incinerated. But recently, new tests started
turning up dozens of BSE cases in continental cows that
apparently ate contaminated feed before the ban.
In the Italian case, the 6-year-old milking cow came from
a breeding farm near Brescia, which has what Parboni described as
"occasional contacts" with Cremonini. The 190 other cows on the
Brescia farm have been banned from being slaughtered while the
case is investigated.
Elsewhere Monday, cattle breeders throughout Spain began
an indefinite blockade of slaughterhouses - a move that could
leave the country without meat stocks within days.
The blockade is intended to pressure the government to
help alleviate the mad cow crisis. It was called by the country's
three main breeder associations and backed by two farming unions,
said Javier Lopez, president of one of the breeder associations.
"We're doing this out of despair," Lopez said.
Breeder estimate that the mad cow crisis has reduced meat
consumption by 70 percent in Spain and caused financial losses of
$65 million. They accuse the government of turning a blind eye to
the crisis and demand compensation for their losses.
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