date:Apr 28, 2014
dozen countries temporarily banned Brazilian beef over the delayed report of that BSE incident.
However, in 2013, the powerful World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) rated Brazil as having negligible status for BSE and ruled that the single BSE case did not put the countrys cattle herds or its trading partners at risk.
In the 2010 incident, the cow did not die of BSE, but was positive for the proteins that cause the disease. Brazil says in the most recent case, the cow suspected of BSE wa