In the October 1, 2014, Federal Register, USDA announced its decision to concur with the World Organization for Animal Health's bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("BSE") risk designations for 15 regions. By regulation, USDA's APHIS must classify every country of the world as having negligible risk, controlled risk, or undetermined risk for BSE, and this recent decision reclassifies 15 regions as negligible risk or controlled risk. The list of regions can be accessed on the APHIS website.

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