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...Glickman served as secretary of agriculture from 1995 to 2001 and began to study mad cow disease in Europe before it became a North American issue...
During his term, Glickman took precautionary measures to protect the U.S. from an outbreak of the disease. He banned feed including spinal cord and brain tissue because cows become infected with the disease by sharing tissue membranes, often through their food...
...with the discovery of an infected cow in the U.S., Glickman’s term has come under new scrutiny. Glickman himself says the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) could have done more...
Going forward, Glickman recommended establishing a more sophisticated tracking and identification system to determine the location of the affected animals. Currently, an animal can only be tested for the disease after it is dead...
During his term in Washington, Glickman also commissioned the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis to study the risks of mad cow disease...