Ministry of Agriculture says that the result of tests for the case of “mad cow disease” was confirmed as atypical and isolated.| Photo: Wenderson Araújo/CNA

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) confirmed, on Thursday night (2), that the case of “mad cow disease” in an animal in Pará was considered atypical by the reference laboratory of the World Organization for Animal Health (WHOA) . According to the agency, it was an isolated case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) detected in the municipality of Marabá (PA) of type H.

With the result confirmed, Minister Carlos Fávaro communicated to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and forwarded the information to the OMSA system and to the Chinese authorities (see full text)

“We received now in the evening [quinta] confirmation from the reference laboratory that the case of BSE registered in Pará is atypical. I immediately communicated to President Lula and we are entering the information into the system for the official communication to the World Organization for Animal Health”, said Fávaro in a post on twitter.

Mapa says it is now working to resume exports of Brazilian beef as soon as possible. The case of “mad cow disease” was registered in a single nine-year-old animal of “natural causes”, he says, and that “all sanitary measures [foram] promptly adopted.