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• n  a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation

• Knast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture.
• New cases of bse emerged in Spain, Germany and Belgium, as well as in an Italian slaughterhouse that supplies McDonald's restaurants.
• His point, surely, was that food scares such as bse had the salutary effect of speeding moves to set basic health and labeling standards.

• bovine spongiform encephalitis
• BSE
• mad cow disease

News & Articles

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• Sensex rises nearly 2 percent; energy firms rally
  By Abhishek Vishnoi MUMBAI (Reuters) - The BSE Sensex rose nearly 2 percent on Thursday to its highest in more than a week as energy firms such as Reliance Industries gained on expectations that the government ...
  June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• Trader Ushdev snares India copper sales after shutdowns
  By Melanie Burton SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India's top private-sector metals trader, Ushdev International Ltd (BSE:511736), has won a toehold in India's copper market after recent smelter shutdowns, and aims ...
  June 27, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• Sensex hit as rupee below 60/dollar; foreign flows key
  By Abhishek Vishnoi MUMBAI (Reuters) - The BSE Sensex fell on Wednesday as blue chips such as Tata Motors declined after the rupee slumped to a record low, escalating worries foreign investors may exacerbate ...
  June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Mike Johanns in International Herald Tribune
  This proposal would continue to protect against BSE in the United States while taking the next step forward in our efforts to implement science-based trade relations with countries that have appropriate safeguards in place to prevent BSE,said...
• Gerry Ritz in Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
  We'd like to thank our Chinese friends for allowing a special shipment of beef for our Canada Day celebrations, as we work to complete our agreement for staged full market access,said Minister Ritz. "Canada is the first BSE-affected...
• John Clifford in San Francisco Chronicle
  We would not anticipate that this would impact our ongoing negotiations,Clifford said. "Our product is safe. We've got a number of interlocking safeguards. And Japan themselves have had 20-plus cases of BSE."