Org Newsroom Menu Beef. Anticipating the issue, planning a response and taking early action were the keys in preventing BSE from causing a consumer scare in the U.S. and in minimizing risk of the disease entering this country. NCBA President, Max Deets, from Beloit, Kan., pointed out that issues like BSE are significant in the international marketplace. It's viewed as the most intensive in the world and, to date, after evaluating over 5,000 cattle brain samples, no evidence of BSE or any similar disease has been found. All are under hold order or quarantine and will never enter the food or feed supply.
Efforts are underway to purchase the remaining animals.
NCBA supports a regulatory ban on the use of such by-products derived from specified ruminant tissues. The proactive, consumer-focused approach has been successful said Deets. Initiated in 1898, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association is the marketing organization and trade association for America's one million cattle farmers and ranchers.