AS BSE casts its menacing shadow across much of the globe, the US is becoming
increasingly nervous that its $400 billion beef industry may not escape.
Officials have taken precautions to keep BSE out. But Â鶹´«Ã½ has
established that even if the US has as high an incidence of BSE as France, where
it has sparked a health and farming crisis, American surveillance efforts would
not spot it.
The US imported a mere 44 tonnes of British meat and bone meal (MBM) before
1996, plus 126 cattle that escaped a subsequent round-up and could have ended up
as feed.…
