MAD COW TEST LAB COVERING UP MORE CASES?

Again pushing the envelope of the Mad Cow story, UPI's Steve Mitchell reports that the single lab in Ames, Iowa that does all the USDA's BSE testing "has a history of producing ambiguous and conflicting results" according to disillusioned USDA veterinarians, and "has been so secretive some suspect it is covering up additional mad cow cases." Most of the vets, of course, are unnamed, though one who is named confirms that "There's definitely issues" with the validity of NVSL test results, and recounts a couple of odd, disconcerting incidents. It could all be a fantastical coincidence, I guess, but it seems like the USDA has just about used up their quota of those.