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Ante mortem

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An`te mor´tem
1.Before death; - generally used adjectively; as, an ante-mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.


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What happened: The Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) allowed the animals in question to go to slaughter after they passed an ante mortem inspection and had only become downers due to a post-inspection injury.
These individuals had polyarticular ante mortem lytic lesions distributed symmetrically among appendicular, primarily peripheral, joints.
The Company is also developing an ante mortem test to detect infectious prions in cattle prior to entering the food supply.
 
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