Consumers at risk of mad cow disease from French wine
U.S. lawmakers, angry over France’s and Germany’s support of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, are exploring whether the United States should require “bright orange warning labels” on French wines that are clarified with bovine (cow) blood. The process of using bovine was banned after the scare involving bovine spongiform encephalopathy — or “mad cow disease” — in the late 1990s.
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