Mad Cow Disease Detected in Ukraine 2012-09-28 22:56:00
Xinhua Web Editor: haipeng
A case of mad cow disease has been confirmed in Ukraine, the first in two
years, reported the authorities on Friday.
A cow from a private household in the central Vinnitsa region was found to
behave aggressively on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry said in a
statement.
The cow was slaughtered the next day and tests confirmed that the cow was
infected with mad cow disease, it said.
The new case posed no risk to human health as all farmers in contact with
the cow were vaccinated, said the ministry.
Local authorities have sealed off the village where the infected cow was
found to prevent the spread of the disease.
Mad cow disease, which attacks the central nervous system, is thought to be
spread mainly in contaminated feed, when animals consume the meat of infected
animals. It attacks an animal through hard-to-destroy protein forms called
prions, which can multiply in the brain, reducing it to a spongy wreck.
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Subject: USDA SEALED BORDERS LEAKING AGAIN WITH POTENTIAL BSE/TSE
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:51:39 –0500
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
To: BSE-L@UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
FSIS Recall
CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
Congressional and Public Affairs
Matt Baun (202) 720-9113
FSIS-RC-038-2004
USDA DETAINS CANNED MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS FROM UKRAINE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2004-USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service today
announced that it is detaining an undetermined amount of canned meat and poultry
products that entered the country from Ukraine. Ukraine is not eligible to
export meat, poultry or egg products into the U.S. New World Amazing
International Inc., a Buffalo Grove, Ill., importing firm, is also voluntarily
recalling the product.
The products being detained and recalled are various weight cans of:
Note: the following product labels are printed in Cyrillic. Photographs of
these labels can be viewed on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov
+ "Pork Stew, Pork Stew in its own Juice." + "Liver Spread, Liver Spread in
Oil." + "Liver Spread, Liver Spread in Pork Fat." + "Chicken Meat, Baby Chicken
Meat." + "Kasha, Rice with Beef." + "Kasha, Buckwheat with Beef." + "Beef Stew,
Beef Stew in its Own Juice."
FSIS has received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of
this product. However, these products could present a health hazard to consumers
because Ukraine is not among the countries that are approved to export meat and
poultry into the U.S. As such, these products have not been inspected by FSIS.
Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a physician.
FSIS has taken immediate steps to remove this product from commerce and
continues to investigate whether any unlawful actions have occurred. Consumers
who have purchased any meat or poultry product imported from Ukraine are urged
not to eat it but to return it to the place of purchase.
The products were distributed to Eastern European specialty food and
gourmet markets in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and
Wisconsin.
Consumers and media with questions about the recall may call Milana
Grosfiler, company manager, at (847) 537-1337.
Consumers with food safety questions can phone the toll-free USDA Meat and
Poultry Hotline at l-888-MPHotline. The hotline can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4
p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday, and recorded food safety messages are
available 24 hours a day.
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Greetings list members,
NOW, lets see about the BSE GBR of Ukraine.
WELL, seem there was no BSE GBR for Ukraine? This is very disturbing for
USA to let these exports slip by again. Seems Ukraine had cases of BSE, but was
later denied?
Veterinary Services
Animal Products Export Regulations
USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
April 2004 UKRAINE/ Veterinary certificate for milk and milk products
Revised April 2004 UKRAINE/ Veterinary certificate for technical gelatin (not
for human consumption), hides, horn-hoof, furs, sheep pelt, lambskin, goat
underfur raw material, wool, haircoat, horsehair, down and feather of chicken,
duck, goose, and other species Revised April 2004 UKRAINE/ Spray dried feed and
feed additives of animal origin New
January 2004 UKRAINE/Veterinary Certificate for technical gelatin (not
intended for human consumption), hides, horn-hoof, furs, sheep pelt, lambskin,
goat underfur raw material, wool, haircoat, horsehair, down and feather of
chicken, duck, goose, and other species New January 2004 UKRAINE/Veterinary
Certificate for pet food Replaced
MAP of Ukraine
IF i understand my Geography correctly, SEEMS Ukraine is surrounded by many
smaller Countries with documented BSE. Poland, CZ., Hungary, Romania, Belarus,
Russia, Moldova, just to name a few;
SO, why are we still allowing these potential BSE/TSE products into the USA
for consumption if our borders are sealed with triple BSE/TSE firewalls still in
2004?
THE damn non-species coding system is a BSE/TSE nightmare, let alone the
products that could carry the BSE/TSE agent that air traffic passengers have
brought into the USA;
* Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Poland 05/07/02
* Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
in the Czech Republic 6/14/01
- Opinion the Geographical Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (GBR)
in Romania (Adopted on 11/05/2001) (21KB)
- Opinion the Geographical Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (GBR)
in the Czech Republic (Adopted on 30/03/2001) (20KB) updated
- Opinion on the Geographical Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(GBR) in the Slovak Republic (Adopted on 30/03/2001) (19KB) updated
- Opinion on the Geographical Risk of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(GBR) in Poland (Adopted on 30/03/2001) (18KB) updated
- Final Report on the updated assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR)
of Belarus 2003 (10 April 2003) (399KB)
- Report on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE - Risk of Hungary (March
2001) (109KB)
Mad Cow Disease Could Hit Russia, Experts Warn
The Russia Journal, June 22, 2002
The arrival of mad cow disease in Poland has led to warnings from Russian
producers that shoddy controls at customs and in local meat production are
putting Russian livestock at risk as well.
The Russian Agriculture Ministry banned bone-in meat and livestock imports
from Poland in early May. While the ministry suggested checking Polish
veterinary controls on meat producers, it was not a condition for continuing
trade, said Aleksander Milota, consul for commercial issues at the Polish
Embassy.
Russia's restrictions on Polish meat are less harsh than those used
recently on American poultry, when Russian veterinarians spent a month checking
American factories for additives and salmonella. Even so, Milota believes
Russian authorities overreacted in responding to bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) in Poland: "All our cattle are tested before being
exported," he said. "There is a psychological factor, which is the fear of the
disease, that makes the government make unnecessary decisions such as banning
cattle imports." Russia used to import 8,000 tons of Polish beef per year.
Poland, expecting to become a EU member in 2004, follows European safety
requirements, which demand parental records for all animals to allow
genealogical tracing. Cows 30 months old must undergo veterinary testing for
BSE, and feeding meat and bone meal to cattle, a practice believed to spread the
disease, is also forbidden.
The Polish BSE case has not affected meat prices in Russia, according to
the Institute for Studies of the Agrarian Market (IKAR). IKAR analyst Larisa
Torogova said she believes that neither meat dealers nor consumers have become
concerned about mad cow disease, since Russia has several supplying countries
for the 2 million tons of red meat imported each year.
Torogova said Germany and Ukraine are the largest beef exporters to Russia.
No mad cow disease has yet been detected in Ukraine, and Germany's controls are
now stricter than those in the rest of Europe after struggling with 125 cases of
BSE in 2001. Its last BSE case was detected in May, though it has had no reports
of the human variant of the disease, Creutzfeld-Jacob, one form of which is
believed transmitted by eating contaminated beef.
A State Customs Committee document shows imports of boneless beef are
allowed from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, France,
the Czech Republic and Japan, as well as Poland. Beef from England, Greece,
Portugal, Switzerland and South Korea is entirely prohibited.
Yury Kostenko, chief of the microbiology department at the V.M. Gorbatov
Meat Research Institute of All Russia, said those restrictions are enough to
decrease contamination risks. "Few remember it, but Russia was the first
European country to ban British beef and cow imports in 1986," he said.
But official barriers aren't effective in practice, according to some
meat-business insiders. Alexander Spiridonov, president of the St.
Petersburg-based Northwestern Association of Meat Producers, accused the
government of favoring a small protectorate of meat importers that, with the
unofficial support of the customs and clearance control inspectors, could bring
meat infected with mad cow or other diseases to Russia.
Spiridonov said previous agreements or bribes to veterinary inspectors
allow goods to move freely across borders. And customs and clearance doesn't
have the resources to test the safety of imported meat.
"The strict European control on meat production, which is in accordance
with Russian veterinary requirements, should be enough to avoid another
veterinary inspection at the ports. At the end, officials don't check the
cargo," he said, adding that trade barriers against mad cow disease are a
government attempt to soften relations with local farmers, many of whom are
close to bankruptcy.
The association believes the licensing and import process, among other
activities associated with veterinary controls, is unconstitutional and is
organizing a lobby of parliament for change. It says a formal charge against the
veterinary department of the Agriculture Ministry through the Antimonopoly
Ministry and the General Procurator of Russia for their conduct is also on the
way, though the Agriculture Ministry couldn't be reached for comment.
Private meat companies have also created a fund to assist farmers facing
difficulties trying to supplying local demand.
Russia has not had any reported cases of BSE. But cattle producers complain
there aren't enough veterinary inspections of their operations. And some say
they doubt the enforcement of legislation regulating the use of animal and bone
meal in feed. Its use in cattle feed has been prohibited in Russia since 1996
and even longer in Europe. But there is little to no supervision by veterinary
inspectors, who are supposed to check feeding procedures and reasons for
animals' deaths.
Meat and bone meal is still used for poultry and hogs, which are not
believed to carry BSE.
That there is only one laboratory to analyze Russia's 27 million cows adds
to suspicions of internal safety controls. That laboratory, the Russian Research
Institute for the Protection of Animals, has tested the meat of 1,200 animals
since its beginning in 1999, 15 years after the disease was first diagnosed in
England. The laboratory, in the city of Vladimir, is supported by Moscow
meat-processing factories interested in checking the quality of their raw
product. But the lab doesn't have equipment to test live cows or track the
disease's path of infection.
"We took cows from the majority of the regions in the country, and not a
single case was discovered," said Alexander Yegorov, deputy chief of the
Department of Rare Diseases. He said those tests should be sufficient to show
that Russian livestock are free of BSE. But the analysis, at $20 per test, is
not affordable for many farmers and so has a limited reach.
"It is impossible to exclude this possibility [of BSE] because it might
have reached our territory from cows and meat and bone meal exported to Russia,"
he said.
The EU, which monitors the potential spread of the disease, warned in 2000
that Poland was likely to have a BSE case. The Brussels-based Press Service of
the European Commission has reported that scientists are now evaluating
countries' risks of exposure to BSE.
They said definitive conclusions about Russia have not yet been reached,
but "certainly the risk of spreading [the disease to Russia] is not excluded."
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since the OIE has failed the International Community so bad on the
reporting of all Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy type disease, I will be
surprised if this case gets reported by the OIE. ...TSS
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
O.I.E. BSE, CWD, SCRAPIE, TSE PRION DISEASE Final Report of the 80th
General Session, 20 - 25 May 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'?
SNIP...
What irks many scientists is the USDA’s April 25 statement that the rare
disease is “not generally associated with an animal consuming infected
feed.”
The USDA’s conclusion is a “gross oversimplification,” said Dr. Paul Brown,
one of the world’s experts on this type of disease who retired recently from the
National Institutes of Health. "(The agency) has no foundation on which to base
that statement.”
“We can’t say it’s not feed related,” agreed Dr. Linda Detwiler, an
official with the USDA during the Clinton Administration now at Mississippi
State.
In the May 1 email to me, USDA’s Cole backed off a bit. “No one knows the
origins of atypical cases of BSE,” she said
The argument about feed is critical because if feed is the cause, not a
spontaneous mutation, the California cow could be part of a larger outbreak.
SNIP...
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Final Feed Investigation Summary - California BSE Case - July 2012
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SUMMARY REPORT CALIFORNIA BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY CASE
INVESTIGATION JULY 2012
Summary Report BSE 2012
Executive Summary
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Update from APHIS Regarding Release of the Final Report on the BSE
Epidemiological Investigation
CENSORSHIP IS A TERRIBLE THING $$$
Canada has had a COVER-UP policy of mad cow disease since about the 17th
case OR 18th case of mad cow disease. AFTER THAT, all FOIA request were ignored
$$$
THIS proves there is indeed an epidemic of mad cow disease in North
America, and it has been covered up for years and years, if not for decades, and
it’s getting worse $$$
Thursday, February 10, 2011
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY REPORT UPDATE CANADA FEBRUARY 2011
and how to hide mad cow disease in Canada Current as of: 2011-01-31
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA
Thursday, August 19, 2010
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA
Friday, March 4, 2011
Alberta dairy cow found with mad cow disease
Reasons for the New Regulation Order No. 23 (as well as amending Order No.
149) of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine name BSE as the reason for
new import requirement. The legal title for Order No. 23 is "On Urgent Measures
Aimed at Prevention and Elimination of BSE and Other Prion Infections in
Cattle”. Neither Order explains how the threat of introduction of BSE can be
addressed through the inspection of producers of all products of animal origin
including fish, dairy products, poultry and pork. It is not clear what other
concerns are addressed through the proposed inspections. Formal Notification of
Trading Partners On August 3rd, Ukraine's Notification and Enquiry Point issued
a legal Notification G/SPS/N/UKR/3/Rev.1 found on the Official WTO Website
(Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures)
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G/SPS/N/UKR/3/Rev.1
3 August
2009
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Committee on Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures
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Original: English
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NOTIFICATION
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Notifying Member: Ukraine
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Agency responsible: State Committee of Veterinary Medicine
of Ukraine
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Products
covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable): Raw animal
products, feed additives, premixes, feed for livestock, other products of animal
origin consisting of ruminants’ protein:
0201 10 Carcasses and
half-carcasses
0201 20 Other cuts with bone
in
0201 30
Boneless
0202 10 Carcasses and
half-carcasses
0202 20 Other cuts with bone
in
0202 30
Boneless
0210 20 Meat of bovine
animals
0210 90 Other, including edible
flours and meals of meat and meat offal
0511 99 Embryos of bovine
animals, other
1502 00 Fats of bovine animals,
sheep or goats, other than those of heading
1503 00 Lard stearin, lard oil,
oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise
prepared
1602 50 Of bovine
animals
1602 90 Containing meat or meat
offal of domestic swine, uncooked; mixtures of cooked meat or offal and uncooked
meat or offal, other
0204 10 Carcases and
half-carcases of lamb, fresh or chilled
0204 21 Carcases and
half-carcases
0204 22 Other cuts with bone
in
0204 23
Boneless
0204 30 Carcases and
half-carcases of lamb, frozen
0204 41 Carcases and
half-carcases
0204 42 Other cuts with bone
in
0204 43
Boneless
0204 50 Meat of
goats
0205 00 Meat of asses, mules or
hinnies
0206 10 Of bovine animals, fresh
or chilled
0206 21
Tongues
0206 22
Livers
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Regions or
countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:
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Title of
the notified document: Order of the State Committee of
Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine No 149 as of 20.05.2009 "On Amendments to the
Order of Chief Inspector of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine No 23 as of
12.03.2001", "On Urgent Measures on Prevention and Elimination of the Appearance
of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
and Other Prion Infection". Language: Ukrainian Number of pages: 5
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Changes
concern the conditions of entry into the territory of Ukraine of raw animal
products, feed additives, premixes, cattle feed, other products of animal
origin.
Since the
entry into force of the Order # 149 the permit for the importation into Ukraine
of raw materials and products of animal origin, feed additives, premixes, feed
for livestock, other products of animal origin will be given after previous
examination of epizootic situation, the verification of the requirements for
facilities, industrial processes, storage conditions and other requirements in
the countries from which these products are
imported.
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Is there a
relevant international standard? If so,
identify the standard:
[ ] World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health
Code, chapter number)
[ X ]
International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.
ISPM N°)
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant
international standard?
[ X ] Yes
[
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Decree of the President of
Ukraine No 192 as of 22.03.2001 "On Urgent Measures to Ensure Stable Epizootic
Situation in Ukraine".
(available in Ukrainian at:
Notice of Chief Inspector
of Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine # 15-3-2-16/4256 as of 21 July 2009 "On
Postponement of Implementation of the Order of the State Committee of Veterinary
Medicine of Ukraine No 149 as of 20.05.2009", "On Amendments to the Order of Chief Inspector of
Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine No 23 as of 12.03.2001", "On Urgent Measures on
Prevention and Elimination of the Appearance of the Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy and Other Prion Infection".
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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): 20 May
2009
Propose date of publication (dd/mm/yy): 22 June
2009
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Proposed date of entry into force:
[ ] Six months from
date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): 14 January 2010
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Final date
for comments: [ X ] Sixty days
from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 2 October
2009
Agency or
authority designated to handle comments:
[ X ] National
Notification Authority, [ X ] National
Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and
E-mail address (if available) of other body:
WTO
Enquiry Point and Information Processing Centre:
MSP 04655,
Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq.
Tel.: +(38 44)
272-11-24
Fax: +(38 44)
272-11-47
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Texts
available from: [ X ] National
Notification Authority, [ X ] National
Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and
E-mail address (if available) of other body:
WTO Enquiry Point and
Information Processing Centre:
MSP 04655, Kyiv, 8 Lvivska
Sq.
Tel.: +(38 44)
272-11-24
Fax: +(38 44)
272-11-47
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