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Dog Food Recall Linked to Mad Cow Disease

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U.S. consumers are being asked to return dog food that may have come

from a Canadian cow that tested positive for mad cow disease.

The suspect food, in 50 pound bags, was produced in Canada by Champion

Pet Food of Morinville, Alberta. If found, the food should be held for

pickup.

Pet Pantry International of Carson City, Nev., which sells the products

by phone or e-mail, said customers should search for two products:

" Maintenance Diet " with a " use by " date of " 17FEB04 " and " Beef with

Barley " with a date of " 05MAR04. "

The voluntary return is a precaution to prevent discarded dog food from

getting mixed with feed for cattle, goats or sheep, the Associated Press

reports. Customers who bought dog food since February should check their

supplies and, if found, should call the company at 1-800-381-7387. Pet

Pantry also is using sales records to contact consumers.

Meanwhile, Canadian authorities have slaughtered almost 400 cattle from

five of the 17 farms or feed lots quarantined in the investigation. The

animals' brains were sent for testing to pinpoint the source of the

country's first outbreak of mad cow disease, also known as bovine

spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.

The outbreak, detected last week in one Alberta cow that was slaughtered

in January, caused the United States and other countries to close their

markets to Canadian beef products and raised questions about industry

regulation.

Agriculture officials now say all 192 animals in the herd of the

infected cow have tested negative. In addition to that herd, another 180

have been slaughtered for testing and genetic tracing to find where and

when the infected cow was born, according to , chief

veterinary officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

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