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To: Crocodile who wrote (3164)	3/2/2004 1:49:18 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 36917

Mad-cow beef 4 times amount earlier said -- Seattle Times : The Seattle Times reports that the amount of beef potentially contaminated by the nation's first mad-cow case was nearly four times higher than the federal government initially reported, The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said. When the USDA launched the recall of affected meat Dec. 23, officials put the total at 10,400 pounds, or 5.2 tons, a figure they repeated for nearly two months. But the actual amount was 38,000 pounds, or 19 tons, the agency now acknowledges. The total swelled because meat from the infected cow was mingled with meat from many other animals when it was ground into hamburger. USDA estimates about half of the meat - 21,000 pounds - was returned. The rest was either eaten or discarded by consumers. The agency never revealed the grocery stores or restaurants that sold the beef, because that information is considered proprietary. CC