U.S. agriculture officials said Sunday that meat from the Holstein cow from Washington state diagnosed with mad cow disease was sent to four more states and one territory than previously thought.Dr. Kenneth Petersen, a veterinarian with the Agriculture Department, said investigators have determined that some of the meat from the animal that was slaughtered on Dec. 9 went to Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana and the territory of Guam. Officials had previously said the meat was distributed to California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state.But Petersen insisted the meat from the diseased cow posed almost no risk to humans because the parts most likely to carry infection -- the brain, spinal cord and lower intestine -- were removed before the meat was cut and processed for distribution to consumers.
