Canada has discovered a suspected new case of mad cow disease in an animal that was six years old, but the animal did not enter the human food chain, the government said Thursday. If the dairy cow in British Columbia is confirmed to have been suffering from the disease, it would be the fifth native-born case of the brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said the case was identified under a national monitoring program that targets animals most at risk of the disease. The "entire carcass has been placed under control," said CFIA veterinarian Cornelius Kiley, adding that no quarantine was required for other animals on the farm. "No part of this animal has entered the food chain. That is an absolute," he said.
