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Money for IL to Conduct Mad-Cow Inspections
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois will receive more than $1 million in federal funding to conduct inspections aimed at preventing mad cow disease.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has entered an agreement with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, which will provide $1.2 million to the effort during the next five years.

The money will be used to ensure cattle feed produced and used in Illinois does not contain ingredients that could transmit the cow brain-wasting disease.

Illinois was one of several states to receive funding.

Experts believe the disease is spread by feed contaminated with tissue from the nervous system of infected cattle. Such tissue has been banned from feed since 1997.

State agriculture officials completed 400 inspections during the past two years and collected and analyzed more than 1,000 feed samples.

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