USDA Chief Veterinary Officer, John Clifford, has confirmed that a routine surveillance sample obtained from the carcass of a dairy cow from California’s Central Valley was positive for the atypical strain of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Press releases and information about BSE can be found on USDA’s web site at www.usda.gov/BSE or the CA Department of Food & Agriculture’s web site, http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/Animal_Health/BSE_Info.html.