FDA Quarantines 1,000 Texas Cattle
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About 1,000 cattle in Texas are being quarantined while the Food and Drug Administration determines whether they ate feed from a mill that may have violated rules designed to prevent mad cow disease.
The announcement, the FDA’s first real crackdown on violations of those rules, came as U.S. cattle producers pressed the government and feed makers to improve compliance with a federal ban on feeding animal meal to cows and sheep.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has not been found in U.S. cattle. The animal meal ban is designed to keep the disease from spreading.
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