Yes. And those officials aren't saying that to protect the US beef industry.
When you only test less than a hundredth of one percent of the animals, you can't credibly say anything about the safety of the US bovine population.
How crazy is it that they are finding any infected cows? I mean, when you test as little as they do, you would expect them to find nothing. But they keep popping up! How many more cases are out there that they never find?