Saturday, December 15, 2007 12:21 am
Dutch milk suspected behind Japanese mad cow outbreaks
Dutch-produced milk made from animal fat powder may have been a cause of the outbreak of mad cow disease in Hokkaido and Kanto, the agricultural ministry said in an investigative report Friday, according to a Kyodo news report.
The report, based on investigations on 32 of the 33 Japanese cows that have been confirmed infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, found that it was likely that 13 of the 32 cows had been infected through milk made on animal fat powder produced by a feed plant in the Netherlands.
The 13 cows were all born in either Hokkaido or in the Kanto region between 1995 and 1996.
A 2003 report issued by the same ministry said the disease might have been caused by imported cows from Great Britain or bone-and-meat feed from Italy, according to the Kyodo News report
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