It is a likely explanation as to how this animal would have become infected.

We'll want to know what feed that animal had been fed, and even more importantly what other animals were on the farm at that same time that might have consumed the same feed and where are they now?

We have all of the safeguards in place to ensure the safety of the animal and the products that might be derived from that animal.

We have the appropriate safeguards in place - overlapping, redundant safeguards - to protect public health and animal health.

Was the animal was born before or after the feed ban, that's the main issue for us.

At the end of the day, the risk occurs when that animal is slaughtered.

This is the primary, if not the only, means which BSE is spread from animal to animal.

The birth herd is the likely location where the animal became infected,