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New Safeguards
Back in the 1990's, the FDA and USDA had already set up safe guards for BSE. But after BSE was found in washington, the two agencies have introduced additional measures for further saftety. These measures include prohibiting all material from non-ambulatory cattle in human food, removing certain cattle tissues from the human food chain, and banning certain nervous system tissues in meat products obtained by an industrial technology to cut meat from bones called advanced meat recovery.



Feed Ban Enforcement
Since the feed rule went into effect in 1997, the agency is steadily increasing the number of farms to check on BSE.

Protecting Foods and Cosmetics
Protecting the food supply from BSE includes ensuring not only the safety of meat, but also of milk and other foods, including dietary supplements, which may contain ingredients from cows.

Protecting Medical Products
The FDA is working further to protect certain parts of cows, as it is used for medical products including some blood products, drugs, devices, vaccines, and human cell- and tissue-based products.

Better BSE Science
Researchers worldwide are now studying more about BSE, especially about the prion that changes the normal protein to abnormal. They are also focusing on ways to diagnose BSE in humans and animals, and are also trying to find ways to detect BSE in living cattle because nowdays it is only examined after an animals death.

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