Grocery stores in Jefferson and Clallam counties reported no drop off in meat sales Wednesday following Tuesday’s announcement that a cow at a dairy farm in central Washington might have been infected with mad cow disease.
“Meat sales are going great,” said manager Dave Gedlund of the Forks Thrifty Mart.
“We posted that we don’t buy our meat from the suspected source.”
The Associated Press on Wednesday afternoon identified a dairy farm Mabton, south of Yakima, as the source of what could be the nation’s first case of mad cow disease.
A government source familiar with the investigation told AP that the cow came from Sunny Dene Ranch.
“We’ve been getting e-mail updates from Associated Grocers, and the final one said we don’t have any meat from that source,” Gedlund said.
Employees at The Food Co-op in Port Townsend and Lake Pleasant Grocery in Beaver also reported no drop off in meat sales since Tuesday.
Local inquiries to QFC and Safeway, which have stores in both counties, and Albertsons, which operates in Port Angeles, were referred to corporate officials who were unavailable because of the holiday.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.
