Brazil says BSE case in Mato Grosso is “atypical”

28/04/2014

Brazil’s ministry for agriculture, livestock and slaughter, MAPA, has carried out tests that appear to show a cow with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the state of Mato Grosso is an isolated, “atypical” case. The cow went to slaughter on March 19 this year, but the team at the abattoir involved withdrew the animal from the production...