EU Says No Impact On U.S. Beef Imports From Mad Cow Case

The European Union’s executive said on Wednesday it did not intend to impose any paricular measures on imports from the United States following the discovery of the country’s first case of mad cow disease or BSE in six years. ”The (European) Commission is satsfied that the new BSE case has been confirmed in the framework of the ongoing
BSE surveillance system in the United States, which prevented
this animal from entering the food chain,” EU Commission
health spokesman Frederic Vincent said in a statement, referring
to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.

—Reuters, 4/25/2012