Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"); current and proposed safeguards.(Brief article)(Book review)

9781606926352

Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"); current and proposed safeguards.

Lister, Sarah A. and Geoffrey S. Becker.

Nova Science Publishers

2009

83 pages

$29.00

Paperback

SF967

This government report on current and proposed safeguards against the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("Mad Cow Disease") focuses on measures introduced by the US Department of Agriculture and the FDA as a response to three documented cases in North America since 2003. Lister (public health and epidemiology, Congressional Research Service) and Becker (agricultural policy, Congressional Research Service) have written this monograph to summarize the trade restrictions, feed ban, BSE surveillance and testing and prevention measures during slaughter and processing as a result of these cases. An epidemiology of BSE and other related livestock illnesses is provided for members of Congress, students and government researchers in agricultural departments.

([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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