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Lab: Death Of 200 Cows Traced To Bad Potatoes

MADISON, Wis. — A state lab says the 200 steers that died this month in Portage County were done in by tainted potatoes.

Peter Vanderloo, an associate director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which is run on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. said the cows tested positive for a toxin that?s found in moldy sweet potatoes.