That’s the word from Japan this morning – the 26th confirmed case of BSE in the Land of the Rising Sun.  This time, cow in question is a 5-year old dairy cow from the Hokkaido province.

Inspectors say that no part of the carcass entered the human food or animal feed chains.  Each beef animal slaughtered for human consumption in Japan is tested for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.