Thursday, December 26, 2013

Mad cow disease warning for Australian beef

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Mad cow disease warning for Australian beef

Commodities

Mad cow disease warning for Australian beef

James Wagstaff • The Weekly Times • December 26, 2013 12:00AM

A lot to lose: Mad cow disease would hurt Aussie producers more than those in the US.

Picture: Zoe Phillips

AUSTRALIAN beef producers stand to lose more from an outbreak of mad cow disease than their American cousins. That's according to Meat and Livestock Australia trade and economic services general manager Peter Barnard. His assessment comes 10 years after the disease was is covered in the US, which cost the local beef industry an estimated $16 billion.

On December 23, 2003, a Washington state dairy cow tested positive for the brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease. It was the first case of BSE in the US and prompted high-value export markets such as Japan and Korea to close their borders to US product overnight.

Australia stepped up to fill the void with beef exports to Japan alone jumping from 280,000 tonnes to 400,000 tonnes within a year.

Dr Barnard said the cost to the US beef industry in the first few years after the discovery was estimated at $1.5-$2.7 billion annually.

"Our costs (in Australia) would be much greater than that because the US industry only exports 10 per cent of production, whereas we export about two thirds of our beef production," he said.

Dr Barnard pointed to a recent ABARES report that said an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Australia would cost an estimated $55 billion.

"Yes, you can pick up some tonnages to these markets, but it's not all good news," he said. "The major lesson to draw from it is the enormous cost of a significant disease outbreak."

Dr Barnard said beef consumption in Japan was well down on 2000 levels when Japan had its BSE case.

"In Korea, we definitely picked up tonnages and unlike Japan exports have continued there at much higher levels."

http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/commodities/cattle/mad-cow-disease-warning/story-fnkeqfz1-1226788871777



MADCOW TSE PRION USDA OIE END OF YEAR REPORT 2013


NOW, for the rest of this madcow nightmare, spreading it around the globe, by the USDA INC and OIE $$$


*** Hence, the data presented here are important for a risk- based SRM definition. ...DECEMBER 2013 ***


Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

http://www.veterinaryresearch.org/content/pdf/1297-9716-44-123.pdf



see much more here ;


Saturday, December 21, 2013

*** Complementary studies detecting classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy infectivity in jejunum, ileum and ileocaecal junction in incubating cattle

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/12/complementary-studies-detecting.html




FDA PART 589 -- SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED FROM USE IN ANIMAL FOOD OR FEED VIOLATIONS OFFICIAL ACTION INDICATED OAI UPDATE DECEMBER 2013 UPDATE


OAI 2012-2013

OAI (Official Action Indicated) when inspectors find significant objectionable conditions or practices and believe that regulatory sanctions are warranted to address the establishment’s lack of compliance with the regulation. An example of an OAI classification would be findings of manufacturing procedures insufficient to ensure that ruminant feed is not contaminated with prohibited material. Inspectors will promptly re-inspect facilities classified OAI after regulatory sanctions have been applied to determine whether the corrective actions are adequate to address the objectionable conditions.


ATL-DO 1035703 Newberry Feed & Farm Ctr, Inc. 2431 Vincent St. Newberry SC 29108-0714 OPR DR, FL, FR, TH HP 9/9/2013 OAI Y

DET-DO 1824979 Hubbard Feeds, Inc. 135 Main, P.O. Box 156 Shipshewana IN 46565-0156 OPR DR, FL, OF DP 8/29/2013 OAI Y

ATL-DO 3001460882 Talley Farms Feed Mill Inc 6309 Talley Rd Stanfield NC 28163-7617 OPR FL, TH NP 7/17/2013 OAI N

NYK-DO 3010260624 Sherry Sammons 612 Stoner Trail Rd Fonda NY 12068-5007 OPR FR, OF NP 7/16/2013 OAI Y

DEN-DO 3008575486 Rocky Ford Pet Foods 21693 Highway 50 East Rocky Ford CO 81067 OPR RE, TH HP 2/27/2013 OAI N

CHI-DO 3007091297 Rancho Cantera 2866 N Sunnyside Rd Kent IL 61044-9605 OPR FR, OF HP 11/26/2012 OAI Y

*** DEN-DO 1713202 Weld County Bi Products, Inc. 1138 N 11th Ave Greeley CO 80631-9501 OPR RE, TH HP 10/12/2012 OAI N

Ruminant Feed Inspections Firms Inventory (excel format)


http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/BovineSpongiformEncephalopathy/ucm114507.htm




PLEASE NOTE, the VAI violations were so numerous, and unorganized in dates posted, as in numerical order, you will have to sift through them for yourselves. ...tss



Tuesday, June 11, 2013

*** Weld County Bi-Products dba Fort Morgan Pet Foods 6/1/12 significant deviations from requirements in FDA regulations that are intended to reduce the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) within the United States

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2013/06/weld-county-bi-products-dba-fort-morgan.html



Thursday, June 6, 2013

BSE TSE PRION USDA FDA MAD COW FEED COMPLIANCE REPORT and NAI, OAI, and VAI ratings as at June 5, 2013

Greetings,

since our fine federal friends have decided not to give out any more reports on the USA breaches of the feed ban and surveillance etc. for the BSE TSE prion mad cow type disease in the USDA livestock, I thought I might attempt it. I swear, I just don’t understand the logic of the SSS policy, and that includes all of it. I assure you, it would be much easier, and probably better for the FDA and the USDA INC., if they would simply put some kind of report out for Pete’s sake, instead of me doing it after I get mad, because I am going to put it all out there. the truth.

PLEASE BE ADVISED, any breach of any of the above classifications OAI, VAI, RTS, CAN lead to breaches into the feed BSE TSE prion protocols, and CAN lead to the eventual suspect tainted feed reaching livestock. please, if any USDA official out there disputes this, please explain then how they could not. paperwork errors can eventually lead to breaches of the BSE TSE prion mad cow feed ban reaching livestock, or contamination and exposure there from, as well.

I would sure like to see the full reports of just these ;

4018 CHI-DO 3007091297 Rancho Cantera 2866 N Sunnyside Rd Kent IL 61044-9605 OPR FR, OF HP 11/26/2012 OAI Y

9367 3008575486 Rocky Ford Pet Foods 21693 Highway 50 East Rocky Ford CO 81067 OPR RE, TH HP 2/27/2013 OAI N

9446 DEN-DO 1713202 Weld County Bi Products, Inc. 1138 N 11th Ave Greeley CO 80631-9501 OPR RE, TH HP 10/12/2012 OAI N

9447 DEN-DO 3002857110 Weld County Bi-Products dba Fort Morgan Pet Foods 13553 County Road 19 Fort Morgan CO 80701-7506 OPR RE HP 12/7/2011 OAI N

see full list of the fda mad cow bse feed follies, toward the bottom, after a short brief update on the mad cow bse follies, and our good friend Lester Crawford that was at the FDA.

ALSO, I would kindly like to comment on this FDA BSE/Ruminant Feed Inspections Firms Inventory (excel format)4 format, for reporting these breaches of BSE TSE prion protocols, from the extensive mad cow feed ban warning letters the fda use to put out for each violations. simply put, this excel format sucks, and the FDA et al intentionally made it this difficult to follow the usda fda mad cow follies. this is an intentional format to make it as difficult as possible to follow these breaches of the mad cow TSE prion safety feed protocols. to have absolutely no chronological or numerical order, and to format such violations in a way that they are almost impossible to find, says a lot about just how far the FDA and our fine federal friends will go through to hide these continued violations of the BSE TSE prion mad cow feed ban, and any breaches of protocols there from. once again, the wolf guarding the henhouse $$$

NAI = NO ACTION INDICATED

OAI = OFFICIAL ACTION INDICATED

VAI = VOLUNTARY ACTION INDICATED

RTS = REFERRED TO STATE

Inspections conducted by State and FDA investigators are classified to reflect the compliance status at the time of the inspection, based upon whether objectionable conditions were documented. Based on the conditions found, inspection results are recorded in one of three classifications:

OAI (Official Action Indicated) when inspectors find significant objectionable conditions or practices and believe that regulatory sanctions are warranted to address the establishment’s lack of compliance with the regulation. An example of an OAI classification would be findings of manufacturing procedures insufficient to ensure that ruminant feed is not contaminated with prohibited material. Inspectors will promptly re-inspect facilities classified OAI after regulatory sanctions have been applied to determine whether the corrective actions are adequate to address the objectionable conditions.

VAI (Voluntary Action Indicated) when inspectors find objectionable conditions or practices that do not meet the threshold of regulatory significance, but warrant an advisory to inform the establishment that inspectors found conditions or practices that should be voluntarily corrected. VAI violations are typically technical violations of the 1997 BSE Feed Rule. These violations include minor recordkeeping lapses or conditions involving non-ruminant feeds.

NAI (No Action Indicated) when inspectors find no objectionable conditions or practices or, if they find objectionable conditions, those conditions are of a minor nature and do not justify further actions.

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/FDAVeterinarianNewsletter/ucm093810.htm



when sound science was bought off by junk science, in regards to the BSE TSE prion mad cow type disease, by the USDA, CFIA, WHO, OIE, et al. $$$

when the infamous, and fraudulently USDA, FSIS, APHIS, FDA, gold card was taken away that infamous day in December of 2003, all cards were off the table, it was time to change the science, and change they did. ...tss

snip. ...please see full text ;


Thursday, June 6, 2013

BSE TSE PRION USDA FDA MAD COW FEED COMPLIANCE REPORT and NAI, OAI, and VAI ratings as at June 5, 2013

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2013/06/bse-tse-prion-usda-fda-mad-cow-feed.html



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,

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf



Sunday, December 15, 2013

*** FDA PART 589 -- SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED FROM USE IN ANIMAL FOOD OR FEED VIOLATIONS OFFICIAL ACTION INDICATED OAI UPDATE DECEMBER 2013 UPDATE

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/12/fda-part-589-substances-prohibited-from.html



Wednesday, December 4, 2013

*** Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Importation of Bovines and Bovine Products; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 78 , No. 233 / Wednesday, December 4, 2013

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/12/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy.html




Saturday, November 2, 2013

*** APHIS Finalizes Bovine Import Regulations in Line with International Animal Health Standards while enhancing the spread of BSE TSE prion mad cow type disease around the Globe

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/11/aphis-finalizes-bovine-import.html




Thursday, December 05, 2013

National Scrapie Eradication Program October 2013 Monthly Report Fiscal Year 2014 TSE PRION REPORT

http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/2013/12/national-scrapie-eradication-program.html



Friday, November 22, 2013

*** Wasting disease is threat to the entire UK deer population CWD TSE prion Singeltary submission

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2013/11/wasting-disease-is-threat-to-entire-uk.html



Tuesday, October 29, 2013

VARIANT CJD PRESENTS DIFFERENTLY IN OLDER PATIENTS

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/10/variant-cjd-presents-differently-in.html



Wednesday, October 09, 2013

*** WHY THE UKBSEnvCJD ONLY THEORY IS SO POPULAR IN IT'S FALLACY, £41,078,281 in compensation REVISED

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-ukbsenvcjd-only-theory-is-so.html



Thursday, October 10, 2013

CJD REPORT 1994 increased risk for consumption of veal and venison and lamb

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/10/cjd-report-1994-increased-risk-for.html



Friday, August 16, 2013

*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update August 2013 U.K. and Contaminated blood products induce a highly atypical prion disease devoid of PrPres in primates

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/08/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-cjd-biannual.html



WHAT about the sporadic CJD TSE proteins ?

WE now know that some cases of sporadic CJD are linked to atypical BSE and atypical Scrapie, so why are not MORE concerned about the sporadic CJD, and all it’s sub-types $$$


Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America updated report August 2013

*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America with Canada seeing an extreme increase of 48% between 2008 and 2010 ***

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/08/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-cjd-cases.html



Sunday, October 13, 2013

*** CJD TSE Prion Disease Cases in Texas by Year, 2003-2012

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/10/cjd-tse-prion-disease-cases-in-texas-by.html



From: noreply@parliament.uk

Sent:

Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:49 AM

To: Terry Singeltary Sr

Subject: Written submission to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry

Parliament UK

Thank you for your written submission to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Blood, tissue and organ screening.

We will be in touch if we have any further questions.

From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 9:18 PM

To: CJDVOICE CJDVOICE Cc: bloodcjd bloodcjd

Subject: [BLOODCJD] A parliamentary inquiry has been launched today into the safety of blood, tissue and organ screening following fears that vCJD – the human form of ‘mad cow’ disease – may be being spread by medical procedures


Monday, December 02, 2013

*** A parliamentary inquiry has been launched today into the safety of blood, tissue and organ screening following fears that vCJD – the human form of ‘mad cow’ disease – may be being spread by medical procedures

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-parliamentary-inquiry-has-been.html




Saturday, November 09, 2013

*** Surveillance for creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: update to December 2012 ***

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/11/surveillance-for-creutzfeldt-jakob.html




kind regards, terry

layperson

Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas USA 77518 flounder9@verizon.net
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

UK FSA Cleveland Meat Company prosecution on failure to remove specified risk material (SRM) per TSE prion regulation

Last updated on 5 December 2013

 

Cleveland Meat Company prosecution

 

The FSA has welcomed the successful prosecution of the Cleveland Meat Company Ltd for breaches of food safety regulations. The company has been ordered to pay more than £27,000 in fines and prosecution costs after being found guilty on 12 charges. It entered a guilty plea on a 13th charge during the course of the hearing.

 

The FSA brought the prosecution against the Cleveland Meat Company after FSA staff identified breaches of the regulations, which are in place to prevent potential consumer exposure to BSE. These breaches included the failure to remove specified risk material (SRM) from a sheep carcass. SRM are the parts of the animal most likely to carry infectivity.

 

Andrew Rhodes, Chief Operating Officer of the FSA, said: 'We are pleased with the successful conclusion of this prosecution. These regulations are in place to keep the public safe and the FSA’s job is to ensure they are enforced properly across the country. Where companies are not meeting their responsibilities we will take action.'

 

 


 

 

THAT AIN’T BAD, only $27,000 fine for exposing the consumers to a disease that is 100% fatal, once clinical, and really, no way to trace the potential iatrogenic TSE there from to humans. all iatrogenic CJD is, is sporadic CJD, until the iatrogenic event that took place is identified, confirmed, and then put in the academic domain, and that rarely ever happens $$$...TSS

 

 

why do we not want to do TSE transmission studies on chimpanzees $

 

*** 5. A positive result from a chimpanzee challenged severly would likely create alarm in some circles even if the result could not be interpreted for man. I have a view that all these agents could be transmitted provided a large enough dose by appropriate routes was given and the animals kept long enough. Until the mechanisms of the species barrier are more clearly understood it might be best to retain that hypothesis.

 

snip...

 

R. BRADLEY

 


 

 

1: J Infect Dis 1980 Aug;142(2):205-8

 

Oral transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie to nonhuman primates.

 

Gibbs CJ Jr, Amyx HL, Bacote A, Masters CL, Gajdusek DC.

 

Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of humans and scrapie disease of sheep and goats were transmitted to squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) that were exposed to the infectious agents only by their nonforced consumption of known infectious tissues. The asymptomatic incubation period in the one monkey exposed to the virus of kuru was 36 months; that in the two monkeys exposed to the virus of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was 23 and 27 months, respectively; and that in the two monkeys exposed to the virus of scrapie was 25 and 32 months, respectively. Careful physical examination of the buccal cavities of all of the monkeys failed to reveal signs or oral lesions. One additional monkey similarly exposed to kuru has remained asymptomatic during the 39 months that it has been under observation.

 

snip...

 

*** The successful transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie by natural feeding to squirrel monkeys that we have reported provides further grounds for concern that scrapie-infected meat may occasionally give rise in humans to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

 

PMID: 6997404

 


 

 

Recently the question has again been brought up as to whether scrapie is transmissible to man. This has followed reports that the disease has been transmitted to primates. One particularly lurid speculation (Gajdusek 1977) conjectures that the agents of scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and transmissible encephalopathy of mink are varieties of a single "virus". The U.S. Department of Agriculture concluded that it could "no longer justify or permit scrapie-blood line and scrapie-exposed sheep and goats to be processed for human or animal food at slaughter or rendering plants" (ARC 84/77)" The problem is emphasised by the finding that some strains of scrapie produce lesions identical to the once which characterise the human dementias"

 

Whether true or not. the hypothesis that these agents might be transmissible to man raises two considerations. First, the safety of laboratory personnel requires prompt attention. Second, action such as the "scorched meat" policy of USDA makes the solution of the acrapie problem urgent if the sheep industry is not to suffer grievously.

 

snip...

 

76/10.12/4.6

 


 

 

Nature. 1972 Mar 10;236(5341):73-4.

 

Transmission of scrapie to the cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis).

 

Gibbs CJ Jr, Gajdusek DC.

 

Nature 236, 73 - 74 (10 March 1972); doi:10.1038/236073a0

 

Transmission of Scrapie to the Cynomolgus Monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

 

C. J. GIBBS jun. & D. C. GAJDUSEK

 

National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

 

SCRAPIE has been transmitted to the cynomolgus, or crab-eating, monkey (Macaca fascicularis) with an incubation period of more than 5 yr from the time of intracerebral inoculation of scrapie-infected mouse brain. The animal developed a chronic central nervous system degeneration, with ataxia, tremor and myoclonus with associated severe scrapie-like pathology of intensive astroglial hypertrophy and proliferation, neuronal vacuolation and status spongiosus of grey matter. The strain of scrapie virus used was the eighth passage in Swiss mice (NIH) of a Compton strain of scrapie obtained as ninth intracerebral passage of the agent in goat brain, from Dr R. L. Chandler (ARC, Compton, Berkshire).

 


 


 

 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

 

IN CONFIDENCE

 

SCRAPIE TRANSMISSION TO CHIMPANZEES

 

IN CONFIDENCE

 


 

 

Monday, December 02, 2013

 

A parliamentary inquiry has been launched today into the safety of blood, tissue and organ screening following fears that vCJD – the human form of ‘mad cow’ disease – may be being spread by medical procedures

 


 

 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

 

Food Standards Agency FSA 13/11/05 Open Board – 05 November 2013 BSE

 


 

 

Thursday, June 6, 2013

 

FSA MORE BSE MAD COW CONTROL BREACHES JUNE 2013

 


 

 

Friday, October 25, 2013

 

UK FSA TSE BSE Board meeting agenda: 5 November 2013

 


 

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

 

U-turn considered on European PAP animal feed ban 27 Mar 2013 News

 


 

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

 

FSA notified of BSE control breaches again and again 5 March 2013

 


 

 

Thursday, January 17, 2013

 

FSA notified of two breaches of BSE testing regulations 14 January 2013

 


 

 

Food Standards Agency FSA 13/01/01 Open Board – 22 January 2013

 

 

PROPOSED DECISION TO STOP BSE TESTING OF HEALTHY CATTLE SLAUGHTERED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (FSA 12/12/04)

 

snip...

 

12. The Deputy Chair declared an interest as an owner of a small farm, but had no livestock. The Chair agreed that this would not improperly influence the Deputy Chair’s contributions to the discussion.

 

13. The Chair welcomed Alison Gleadle, FSA Director of Food Safety, David Carruthers, FSA Head of Meat Hygiene and TSE Policy Branch and Alick Simmons, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, Defra to the meeting. Alison Gleadle explained that the critical controls to protect human health and prevent a recurrence of BSE were those associated with the removal of Specified Risk Material (SRM) from carcases and the control of feed stuffs. The current proposal to stop BSE testing healthy slaughter cattle was based on European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) advice and relates to surveillance rather than consumer protection. This advice was consistent with previous advice from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) that any change in BSE incidence is most likely to be detected in at risk cattle. The letter from the Chief Medical Officer also agreed with this assessment. No change was proposed to the SRM or feed ban controls. Alison Gleadle assured the Board that if there were any unexpected changes in BSE levels or deterioration in the epidemiological situation, the Board would be informed.

 

14. Alick Simmons said Defra, as the Department responsible for overseeing the surveillance system, was committed to managing the risk to public health on a proportionate basis.

 

15. A Board member agreed the science supported the recommendation in the paper but wanted assurance that sufficient testing would remain in place to spot any re-emergence of BSE and wanted to know if it would take longer to detect an increase. Alick Simmons said this would not be the beginning of the end of monitoring. Internationally the UK has controlled risk status. It would take 11 years after the birth of the last BSE case before the UK achieved negligible risk status and could

 

Food Standards Agency FSA 13/01/01 Open Board – 22 January 2013 4

 

reduce the controls. The current sensitive controls made predictions of re-emergence easier and would remain in place. There could be a change in the speed with which a re-emergence of the disease could be detected but as long as the SRM and feed controls remained in place the effects of any delay would be significantly mitigated.

 

16. The Chair of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee (SFAC) said the Committee agreed with the recommendation but it was crucial that the two controls (feed ban and SRM) remained in place. He asked if the FSA would have to wait 17 years to detect a re-emergence or if the continued testing of at-risk cattle would detect it before then. Alick Simmons said he would expect to see any re-emergence in at-risk cattle. The results of the monitoring undertaken by Defra were published. AHVLA run a model every year on the data so any change in the level of BSE detected would come to the FSA’s attention as soon as that data was reported.

 

17. The Chair of the Welsh Food Advisory Committee (WFAC) said the Committee supported moving to the modified regime but it was a pre-requisite that the controls (feed ban and SRM) remained in place and regular reports on the effectiveness of the monitoring system were provided. These reports would be expected to include information on the feed ban although the enforcement of it is not part of the FSA’s remit.

 

18. On behalf of the Chair of the Northern Ireland Food Advisory Committee (NIFAC), the Chair said NIFAC also sought reassurance on the integrity of the surveillance of fallen and at-risk cattle.

 

19. The Deputy Chair said that while the FSA would be involved in any changes to the TSE Road map, it would not be involved in any changes to animal health surveillance and stressed that communication between Defra and the FSA on this latter point would be crucial. The Chief Executive drew the Board’s attention to the letter from Peter Unwin, Director General of Policy Delivery at Defra, which states that the FSA’s advice will be sought on the food safety implications of any proposals to change the BSE testing requirements.

 

20. The Deputy Chair said Bulgaria and Romania were high risk countries and asked if traceability systems existed to cope with a two tier system. Alick Simmons said that Romania and Bulgaria were not necessarily higher risk but as their controls had been in place for a shorter period, they could not yet move to a lower level of surveillance. He said there were statutory requirements on surveillance of foreign stock, on diseases other than BSE and additional tests for new and emerging diseases. Defra expected to start a consultation on 13 December 2012 to reconfigure the surveillance system for new and emerging diseases in England and Wales. Alick Simmons invited Board members to attend the AHVLA meetings as part of their consultation on changes to wider surveillance systems for new and emerging diseases.

 

Action: Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer Food Standards Agency FSA 13/01/01 Open Board – 22 January 2013

 

5 21. A Board member suggested adding the following wording to the FSA advice to Ministers: “while continuing to test all “risk cattle” aged over 48 months and subject to maintaining the ban on feeding animal protein to farmed animals and the removal of specified risk material (SRM).”

 

22. The Chair said the risk to consumers of stopping BSE testing of all healthy cattle aged over 72 months was negligible and the food supply chain would continue to be protected with the ban on animal protein in animal feed and the removal of specified risk material (SRM). With no case of BSE in healthy

 

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11Dec12/O/22

 

Director of Food Safety

 

The Board should review a report on the results of the BSE monitoring system and the effectiveness of enforcement of the feed and SRM controls six months after current levels of BSE testing are reduced; a second report after another six months; and then a report annually.

 

Nov 2013

 

This has been noted and placed on the future agenda plan.

 

 


 

 

Citizens Forums are the main mechanism for direct engagement with consumers across the UK. Forums can either be a longer deliberative process where more information is required and consumers need time to think more widely about the issues. For other policy issues a shorter one-session discussion is used e.g. changes to BSE testing.

 

Locations are chosen to ensure ethnic diversity and consumers with non-English cultures are included. This involves selecting locations with rich ethnic diversity e.g. Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester and London. On some policy issues the closeness to agriculture or farming has made a difference to how consumers view particular challenges. Recent examples of this include Processed Animal Protein (PAP), EU Proposals on BSE Regulation and Consumer Attitudes to Raw Drinking Milk. Therefore ensuring consumers from areas that are more rurally located and not just cities or large towns has ensured the engagement does not become one dimensional.

 


 

 

breaches (UK)

 

In the period 1 April 2012 to 30 September 2012, 1,277,136 bovines were slaughtered for human consumption, with 5 breaches of BSE controls reported in the period. During Quarter 2 (July – September 2012) there were 4 breaches and 643,732 bovines were slaughtered for human consumption. None of these breaches were for bovines included in FSA checks. All specified risk material would have been removed from the animals at the time of processing (specified risk material is the parts of an animal likely to contain any infectivity in the unlikely event that the animal should have BSE).

 

 


 

 

 

> This has been noted and placed on the future agenda plan.

 

?

 

 TSS

 

 

TO STOP TESTING HEALTHY CATTLE FOR BSE TSE PRION DISEASE, all strains, it just seems so counter productive to me, and further risk spreading the BSE TSE prion agent even further, thus risking more humans...tss

 

 

“This research raises the possibility, which has been mentioned before, that apparently healthy cattle could harbour, but never show signs of, BSE.”

 

SUB CLINICAL PRION INFECTION

 

MRC-43-00 Issued: Monday, 28 August 2000

 

NEW EVIDENCE OF SUB-CLINICAL PRION INFECTION: IMPORTANT RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT TO CJD AND BSE

 

A team of researchers led by Professor John Collinge at the Medical Research Council Prion Unit1 report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, on new evidence for the existence of a ?sub-clinical? form of BSE in mice which was unknown until now.

 

 

"This is a timely and unexpected result, increasing what we know about prion disease. These new findings have important implications for those researching prion disease, those responsible for preventing infected material getting into the food chain and for those considering how best to safeguard health and reduce the risk that theoretically, prion disease could be contracted through medical and surgical procedures."

 

ISSUED FRIDAY 25 AUGUST UNDER EMBARGO. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EMBARGO IS SET BY THE JOURNAL

 

see full text ;

 


 

 

Neurobiology of Disease

 

Subclinical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Infection in Transgenic Mice Expressing Porcine Prion Protein

 


 

 

Friday, December 21, 2012

 

Four BSE cases with an L-BSE molecular profile in cattle from Great Britain

 

Veterinary Record doi:10.1136/vr.101158 Paper

 


 

 

Monday, October 14, 2013

 

Researchers estimate one in 2,000 people in the UK carry variant CJD proteins

 


 

 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

 

VARIANT CJD PRESENTS DIFFERENTLY IN OLDER PATIENTS

 


 

 

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

 

*** WHY THE UKBSEnvCJD ONLY THEORY IS SO POPULAR IN IT'S FALLACY, £41,078,281 in compensation REVISED

 


 

 

Thursday, October 10, 2013

 

CJD REPORT 1994 increased risk for consumption of veal and venison and lamb

 


 

 

Friday, August 16, 2013

 

*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update August 2013 U.K. and Contaminated blood products induce a highly atypical prion disease devoid of PrPres in primates

 


 

 

WHAT about the sporadic CJD TSE proteins ?

 

 

WE now know that some cases of sporadic CJD are linked to atypical BSE and atypical Scrapie, so why are not MORE concerned about the sporadic CJD, and all it’s sub-types $$$

 

 

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America updated report August 2013

 

*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America with Canada seeing an extreme increase of 48% between 2008 and 2010 ***

 


 

 

Sunday, October 13, 2013

 

CJD TSE Prion Disease Cases in Texas by Year, 2003-2012

 


 

 

Monday, September 02, 2013

 

Lessons from the response to the threat of transfusion-transmitted vCJD in Ireland

 


 

 

Saturday, November 2, 2013

 

Recommendation of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety on the classification of activities using prion genes and prion protein January 2013

 


 

 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

 

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Importation of Bovines and Bovine Products; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 78 , No. 233 / Wednesday, December 4, 2013

 

TO ALL IMPORTING COUNTRIES THAT IMPORTS FROM THE USA, BE WARNED, NEW MAD COW BSE REGULATIONS USDA, AND OIE, not worth the paper the regulations were wrote on, kind of like the mad cow feed ban of August 1997, nothing but ink on paper $$$

 

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Thursday, December 05, 2013

 

National Scrapie Eradication Program October 2013 Monthly Report Fiscal Year 2014 TSE PRION REPORT

 


 

 

 

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