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Usda not testing animals at risk for madcow Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=5669311 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=5669311 USDA to Spot-Check Its Mad Cow Testing Program Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:04 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department will launch a nationwide review to make sure its stepped-up testing program for mad cow disease is being carried out properly, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said on Wednesday. The nationwide evaluation would begin on Thursday at USDA headquarters, "proceeding to regional and state offices later this month," Veneman said in testimony prepared for Congress. "Over a four to six week period, AMS (Agricultural Marketing Service) will conduct on-site assessments of random locations where surveillance activities occur, with a report issued within four weeks afterward," she said. "These assessments will be on-going." USDA expanded its testing of cattle for the fatal disease on June 1, with a target of getting at least 268,500 brain samples by the end of 2005. This would include tests on 20,000 healthy older cattle but would consist primarily of cattle showing signs of ailments of the central nervous system, "downers" too ill or injured to walk, older cattle that die from unknown causes, and cattle showing symptoms of diseases that may be associated with mad cow. There have been complaints the testing program was flawed. In April, USDA acknowledged inspectors in Texas failed to test a 12-year-old cow that may have had central nervous system disorders. The USDA's inspector general, in a report this week, said USDA was not testing many of the cattle most at risk of the disease. Veneman pointed to comments from experts saying the testing program was well designed.

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