WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Canada has confirmed its 17th case of mad cow disease, a
finding that will delay any upgrade to its international risk status by one
year, a top industry official said on Wednesday.
The animal was born in February 2004, making it Canada’s latest-born case of
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The new case pushes back the earliest
date for an upgrade to Canada’s controlled risk status from the World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to 2016, said Ted Haney, president of the
Canada Beef Export Federation.
A country cannot apply to upgrade to negligible status sooner than 11 years
after the latest-born case of BSE. The process then takes about one year.
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