IFT Summarizes Knowledge About TSEs

摘要

Media coverage of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), particularly bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has attempted to oversimplify a complex scientific issue and obscure the fact that Americans enjoy beef. Beef continues to pose an extremely low food safety threat-there are currently no endogenously derived cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States-particularly when compared to other potential, higher-prevalence foodborne maladies.