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Wall-to-Wall Mad Cow Coverage
Mad cow disease isn’t everywhere, it only seems that way with ubiquitous and obligatory news reports appearing from sea to shining sea since it was confirmed December 23 that a single cow from Washington state tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Like BSE coverage, IFT’s food science communicator Dean O. Cliver, University of California at Davis, has also seemingly been everywhere with his comments and insight on the positive test and the risk—or mo…