WASHINGTON – Seeking to close a gap in the nation’s defense against mad cow disease, the Bush administration on Tuesday proposed to eliminate cow brains and spinal cords from feed for all animals, ...

Health and Consumer Groups Urge USDA to Keep Cattle Spinal Cord Tissue Out of Processed Meat The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Friday (10 August) petitioned the U.S. Department of ...

Spinal cord has been found - for the second time this month - in beef imported from The Netherlands into the UK. Bovine spinal cord is classified as specified risk material (SRM) and is therefore ...

Like most of Europe, the United States and Canada have banned brain and spinal cord tissue from use in cattle feed. Those tissues are the primary means by which the mad cow disease is transmitted. The ...