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In the United Kingdom, one form of TSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is believed to be linked to cattle feed containing rendered protein by-products from sheep and goats infected with scrapie, a disease related to BSE.
The prion is the protein-like agent that causes transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
It's the only spongiform encephalopathy known to naturally infect both free-ranging and captive animals, a situation that greatly complicates efforts to monitor, control, or eradicate it.
FDA is issuing this rule to reduce the risk of an outbreak of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in the United States.
Nevertheless, Pennington goes into some detail in assessing the prion theory of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (he argues that a nucleic acid is not also involved).