BSE Update - January 20, 2004
        
        On January 19, USDA completed selective depopulation operations on the facility in Mattawa, Washington.
    
 
    
                
            
                
                    
 20 January 2004
                
             
            
                
                                    
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                                        USDA has transported and sampled a total of 39 animals from this facility. Selective depopulation has also been completed at the index premises; 131 animals from the index premises have been euthanized and sampled. To date, 121 samples from the index herd have completed testing; results have been negative. Results from the Mattawa herd are not yet available.
Source: USDA APHIS