Following the discovery of new cases of BSE in Alberta, Canada, a team of nine representatives of the American National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has travelled to Canada to review the situation and monitor Canada’s response in controlling the disease after it was discovered in an animal that was born after the supposed implementation of a ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban.

The NCBA had earlier endorsed the re-opening of the US border to Canadian cattle but, it has now reconsidered its position in light of the latest discovery.

Meanwhile, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), a total of six cows have been shipped to the USA from the Alberta herd that has had a confirmed case of BSE. The CFIA is tracing 38 animals that it wants to test because they were born on the same farm as the infected cow at about the same time.

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