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Nebraska Beef Feedlot Roundtable 2004
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Animal Production Food Safety
Because of the actions taken through various Quality Assurance programs, previous concerns about physical and chemical hazards originating on the farm have been addressed successfully. Now the concerns are increasingly about biological hazards. The consumers worry about mad-cow disease, antibiotic resistance, multi-drug resistant Salmonella, enterohemorrhagic
E. coli
(e.g.
Escherichia coli
O157:H7) and other food safety pathogens which ultimately affects demand for product and the producers bottom-line.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United States
What is BSE? Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a disease of adult cattle affecting the brain and other nerve tissue. It also is sometimes referred to as mad cow disease.
FAQs on the U.S. Animal Identification Plan
The U.S. Animal Identification Plan (USAIP) defines the standards and framework for implementing and maintaining a phased-in national animal identification system for the United States.
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