Following confirmation of Mad Cow Disease in Canada on Tuesday, (see leather biz.com, ‘Canada confirms case of Mad Cow Disease’ - 21.05.03), Mexico and Japan have joined the US and Australia in placing a temporary ban on the import of Canadian beef and cattle.
Though it is still not known where the eight-year-old Black Angus cow was born, Dr Claude Lavigne, an associative director with Canada’s Food Inspection Agency said it almost certainly did not come from Britain as Canada banned all British imports of cattle in 1990.
Officials in the neighbouring province of Saskatchewan say they are investigating the possibility that the cow may have come from one of the region’s quarantined farms.
