Food safety agency to determine bovine tuberculosis outbreak in Alberta
EDMONTON — Canada’s food safety watchdog says it won’t begin tests to find the source of a bovine tuberculosis outbreak until the fall.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency wants to focus on how the disease managed to get onto one Alberta farm and infect six cattle, said Dr. Harpeet Kochhar, the agency’s chief veterinarian.
“While we have focused extensively on the potential for the spread of disease so far, we are now turning our focus to tracing activities to identify the source of the infection,” he said Friday.
“Testing of herds identified through tracing activities will begin in the fall because calving season has already begun in Western Canada.”