Release No. 0106.13 Contact: USDA Office of Communications (202)
720-4623
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Regarding World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Upgrade of United States' BSE Risk Status
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2013–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the
following statement about notification received today from the World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) upgrading the United States' risk
classification for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to negligible risk: "I
am very pleased with OIE's decision to grant the United States negligible risk
status for BSE. This is a significant achievement that has been many years in
the making for the United States, American beef producers and businesses, and
federal and state partners who work together to maintain a system of
interlocking safeguards against BSE that protect our public and animal health.
This decision demonstrates OIE's belief that both our surveillance for, and
safeguards against, BSE are strong. U.S. beef and beef products are of the
highest quality, wholesome and produced to the highest safety standards in the
world. Last year, exports of U.S.-origin beef and beef products totaled $5.5
billion. With our negligible risk classification from the OIE, we have a strong
foundation in place to continue increasing exports of U.S.-origin beef and beef
products. In doing so, we will continue to press trading partners to base their
decisions on science, consistent with international standards. U.S. food and
agricultural exporters and consumers worldwide benefit when countries adopt
science-based international standards." #
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the new BSE TSE PRION MAD COW risk category the OIE gave the USA, puts
everyone around the globe at more risk of a tse prion mad cow type disease now.
in my opinion, this new risk category was bought and paid for by your local
cattle dealer, via fraud.
IT is of my opinion, that the OIE and the USDA et al, are the soul reason,
and responsible parties, for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE prion
diseases, including typical and atypical BSE, typical and atypical Scrapie, and
all strains of CWD, and human TSE there from, spreading around the globe.
I have lost all confidence of this organization as a regulatory authority
on animal disease, and consider it nothing more than a National Trading
Brokerage for all strains of animal TSE, just to satisfy there commodity. AS i
said before, OIE should hang up there jock strap now, since it appears they will
buckle every time a country makes some political hay about trade protocol,
commodities and futures. IF they are not going to be science based, they should
do everyone a favor and dissolve there organization.
JUST because of low documented human body count with nvCJD and the long
incubation periods, the lack of sound science being replaced by political and
corporate science in relations with the fact that science has now linked some
sporadic CJD with atypical BSE and atypical scrapie, and the very real threat of
CWD being zoonosis, I believed the O.I.E. has failed terribly and again, I call
for this organization to be dissolved. ...
IN A NUT SHELL ;
(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)
11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries. The
OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease status
based on inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that were not promptly reported to the Central Bureau,
i pulled this comment off another board about the OIE and all it's lobby
groups. please see ;
Having been to their offices in Paris and talked personally with the Head
of the Animal Test Section, you would choke if you knew how many lobby groups
attend that office daily. There is a steady stream of paid lobby groups that
have one goal in life and that is to sway the Section Heads of each department
within the OIE to suit the needs of different juristictions around the world,
which curiously enough, also includes the USA and Canada. Anyone can go there
and chat with them - providing they can privide valid cause to be let in. To say
that the only goal of the OIE is animal health is actually only part of their
function. They are more than that and my discussions with Dr. Diaz there has
showed me that. But to blindly make a statement regarding what they do when you
have no idea what they actually do is like eating the skin of the orange and not
knowing what is actually under. Interstingly you state that the US Government
applied pressure (to the OIE) I assume and that is a great example of the lobby
groups doing their job. So, at the end of the day, one can safely assume that it
is the pressure applied by certain influential lobby groups that will determine
a likely aoutcome to an apparent OIE directive. Man alive, isn't it great to
live in a democracy wherein the people get to make the choices and not just some
"other" interested party or group - say like........Cargyll or Tyson for
example?
So, one last question, question?
Who wags the tail of that dog?? And for what reason other than one that is
purely associated with trade and international agreements and greed?
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation: CEO of BSE Prion Solutions Inc.
Interests: Prion Diseases and Live Animal Testing
end...tss
please see history of the USDA, OIE, mad cow follies and cover up and fraud
there from here ;
Thursday, May 30, 2013
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has upgraded the United States'
risk classification for mad cow disease to "negligible" from "controlled", and
risk further exposing the globe to the TSE prion mad cow type disease
U.S. gets top mad-cow rating from international group
and risk further exposing the globe to the TSE prion mad cow type
disease
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Canada, USA, Bad feed, mad cows: Why we know three BSE cases had a common
origin and why the SSS policy is in full force $$$
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Feds want five-year paper trail for livestock NAIS COOL
Friday, April 19, 2013
APHIS 2013 Stakeholder Meeting (March 2013) BSE TSE PRION
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
World Organization for Animal Health Recommends United States' BSE Risk Status Be Upgraded
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack:
http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/02/world-organization-for-animal-health.html
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Many Faces of Mad Cow Disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE and TSE prion disease
http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-many-faces-of-mad-cow-disease.html
Monday, October 10, 2011
EFSA Journal 2011 The European Response to BSE: A Success Story
snip...
EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recently delivered a scientific opinion on any possible epidemiological or molecular association between TSEs in animals and humans (EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) and ECDC, 2011). This opinion confirmed Classical BSE prions as the only TSE agents demonstrated to be zoonotic so far but the possibility that a small proportion of human cases so far classified as "sporadic" CJD are of zoonotic origin could not be excluded. Moreover, transmission experiments to non-human primates suggest that some TSE agents in addition to Classical BSE prions in cattle (namely L-type Atypical BSE, Classical BSE in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and chronic wasting disease (CWD) agents) might have zoonotic potential.
snip...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Seven main threats for the future linked to prions
First threat
The TSE road map defining the evolution of European policy for protection against prion diseases is based on a certain numbers of hypotheses some of which may turn out to be erroneous. In particular, a form of BSE (called atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), recently identified by systematic testing in aged cattle without clinical signs, may be the origin of classical BSE and thus potentially constitute a reservoir, which may be impossible to eradicate if a sporadic origin is confirmed.
***Also, a link is suspected between atypical BSE and some apparently sporadic cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. These atypical BSE cases constitute an unforeseen first threat that could sharply modify the European approach to prion diseases.
Second threat
snip...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
A closer look at prion strains Characterization and important implications Prion
7:2, 99–108; March/April 2013; © 2013 Landes Bioscience
http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-closer-look-at-prion-strains.html
http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/
TSS
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
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