The BSE pathogen was detected in a dead cow in the Netherlands

The pathogen BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) has been detected in the carcass of a cow on a farm in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Agriculture informed the Parliament in The Hague about this. The infected animal did not enter the food chain and did not pose a food safety risk, Dutch Agriculture Minister Piet Adema said. The ministry did not say where the farm at risk, which was isolated by the authorities, was located. No manure, meat or animals may be removed from the farm. Offspring and animals bred with the cow or fed the same feed will be examined, tested for BSE and slaughtered, the agriculture minister added. Classic or atypical variant of BSE According to Dutch media reports, the disease was ...