10 years after mad cow cover up started, and 16 years after Moms demise to hvCJD, were still feeding cows to cows

Originally published December 21, 2013 at 7:25 PM | Page modified December 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM
10 years after mad cow scare, dairyman recalls ‘cow that stole Christmas’
Ten years ago Monday, it took just one cow from a Yakima County dairy to send shock waves through the U.S. cattle industry, halt billions of dollars in exports and scare a lot of beef consumers. It was the first cow in the country to test positive for mad-cow disease.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2022505816_madcowxml.html

http://www.yakimaherald.com/community/lowervalley/sunnysidecontent/1728814-8/coming-sunday-mad-cow-10-years-later

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/20/3474354/china-promises-to-promote-us-beef.html


10 years after mad cow cover up started, and 16 years after Moms demise to hvCJD, and many more of our friends and loved ones demise to sCJD,  were still feeding cows to cows. sporadic CJD has now been linked to some of the many sub-types of the sporadic CJD.



IF you really want to know, what they are feeding cows and other livestock for human and animal consumption, please see my latest... review of the OAI’s under the mad cow feed ban for 2013. please be aware, the mad cow feed ban of 1997, was nothing but ink on paper. the tonnage of banned mad cow feed that has gone into commerce is phenomenal, it’s in the 100s if not 1000s of tonnages. it’s flat out shocking...




FDA PART 589 -- SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED FROM USE IN ANIMAL FOOD OR FEED VIOLATIONS OFFICIAL ACTION INDICATED OIA 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


snip...please see full text ;



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


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



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 $$$


see history of the OIE, USDA, CFIA, MAFF MAD COW FOLLIES IN ITS ENTIRETY. ...GOD HELP US!


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



Sunday, November 13, 2011

California BSE mad cow beef recall, QFC, CJD, and dead stock downer livestock

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/11/california-bse-mad-cow-beef-recall-qfc.html


Thursday, January 17, 2013

Canada, U.S. agree on animal-disease measures to protect trade, while reducing human and animal health protection

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2013/01/canada-us-agree-on-animal-disease.html



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

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2011/02/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathy.html



Wednesday, August 11, 2010

REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-on-investigation-of-sixteenth.html



Thursday, August 19, 2010

REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA

http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2010/08/report-on-investigation-of-seventeenth.html



Friday, March 4, 2011

Alberta dairy cow found with mad cow disease

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/03/alberta-dairy-cow-found-with-mad-cow.html


Monday, April 23, 2012

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY BSE CJD TSE PRION DISEASE UPDATE CANADA 2012

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/04/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-bse.html


Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Canadian veterinarian fined after approving banned BSE high risk cattle for export to U.S.A.

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2012/10/canadian-veterinarian-fined-after.html



Saturday, January 21, 2012

Quick facts about mad cow disease

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/01/quick-facts-about-mad-cow-disease.html


*** CANADA MBM LIVE CATTLE BSE TSE PRION TO USA

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:23:12 +0200

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2013/01/canada-mbm-live-cattle-bse-tse-prion-to.html


Sunday, December 2, 2012

CANADA 19 cases of mad cow disease SCENARIO 4: ‘WE HAD OUR CHANCE AND WE BLEW IT’

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2012/12/canada-19-cases-of-mad-cow-disease.html


Saturday, August 4, 2012

*** Final Feed Investigation Summary - California BSE Case - July 2012

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/08/final-feed-investigation-summary.html


SUMMARY REPORT CALIFORNIA BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY CASE INVESTIGATION JULY 2012

Summary Report BSE 2012

Executive Summary

http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/08/summary-report-california-bovine.html



Saturday, August 4, 2012


Update from APHIS Regarding Release of the Final Report on the BSE Epidemiological Investigation


http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/08/update-from-aphis-regarding-release-of.html



http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/03/aphis-proposes-new-bovine-spongiform.html


http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/02/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-bse-31.html


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/11/mad-cow-testing-faked-in-usa-by.html


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/09/bse-surveillance-continues-to-benefit.html


2009 UPDATE ON ALABAMA AND TEXAS MAD COWS 2005 and 2006


http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2006/08/bse-atypical-texas-and-alabama-update.html





HISTORY OF MAD COW THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS, AND COVER UP THERE FROM...IN MY OPINION...TSS




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: MADCOW CONFIRMED USA WASHINGTON STATE
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:37:42 -0600
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
To: BSE-L
CC: CJDVOICE , BLOODCJD


CNBC JUST ANNOUNCED 1ST USA MAD COW CASE !!!


Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman To Hold News Conference
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman will conduct a news conference from
USDA this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. EST.

http://www.usda.gov/index.html


TSS



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: USDA MAKES PRELIMINARY DIAGNOSIS OF BSE
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:37:54 -0600
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
To: BSE-L
CC: CJDVOICE , BLOODCJD , esb@saphir.jouy.inra.fr


Release No. 0432.03
Alisa Harrison (202) 720-4623
Julie Quick (202) 720-4623

USDA MAKES PRELIMINARY DIAGNOSIS OF BSE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2003-Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has diagnosed a presumptive positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an adult Holstein cow in the state of Washington.

"Despite this finding, we remain confident in the safety of our beef supply," Veneman said. "The risk to human health from BSE is extremely low."

Because the animal was non-ambulatory (downer) at slaughter, samples were taken Dec. 9 as part of USDA's targeted BSE surveillance system. The samples were sent to USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. Positive results were obtained by both histology (a visual examination of brain tissue via microscope) and immunohistochemistry (the gold standard for BSE testing that detects prions through a staining technique). Test results were returned on Dec. 22 and retested on Dec 23.

USDA has initiated a comprehensive epidemiological investigation working with state, public health, and industry counterparts to determine the source of the disease. USDA will also work with the Food and Drug Administration as they conduct animal feed investigations, the primary pathway for the spread of BSE.

This investigation has begun while the sample is being sent to the world reference laboratory in England for final confirmation. USDA will take the actions in accordance with its BSE response plan, which was developed with considerable input from federal, state and industry stakeholders.

BSE is a progressive neurological disease among cattle that is always fatal. It belongs to a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Also included in that family of illnesses is the human disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), which is believed to be caused by eating neural tissue, such as brain and spinal cord, from BSE-affected
cattle. USDA has determined that the cow comes from a farm in Washington State and as part of the USDA response plan, the farm has been quarantined. After the animal was slaughtered, the meat was sent for processing and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is working to determine the final disposition of products from the animal.

For more information visit www.usda.gov.

#

USDA News
oc.news@usda.gov
202 720-9035

TSS



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Transcript of News Conference with Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on BSE
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:54:19 -0600
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
To: BSE-L@uni-karlsruhe.de


######## Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy #########

Transcript of News Conference with
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on BSE

Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Washington D.C.

See attachment for full story

USDA News
oc.news@usda.gov
202 720-9035


Release no. 0433.03
of
News Conference with
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on BSE

Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Washington D.C.

SECRETARY VENEMAN: We are here this afternoon on such very short notice.
Joining me today are Bill Hawks, USDA's Under Secretary for Marketing
and Regulatory programs; Dr. Elsa Murano, our Under Secretary for Food
Safety; and Dr. Ron DeHaven, our Deputy Administrator for Veterinary
Services at the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service and our chief
veterinarian here at USDA.

They will assist me in answering any questions that you have.

Today we received word from USDA's National Veterinary Services
Laboratories in Iowa that a single Holstein cow from Washington State
has tested as presumptive positive for BSE or what is widely known as
mad cow disease.

Despite this finding we remain confident in the safety of our food
supply. The risk to human health from BSE is extremely low. The animal
tested was a downer cow or nonambulatory at the time of slaughter and
was identified as part of USDA's targeted surveillance program.

The sample was taken on December 9th. It was tested and retested at our
Ames facility using two tests including immuno-histo-chemistry, which is
recognized as the gold standard for the detection of BSE by the World
Health Organization and OIE, the Organization of International Epizootics.

A sample from this animal is being flown on a military aircraft to the
central veterinary laboratory in Weybridge, England in order to confirm
this finding. Our traceback indicates that the animal comes from a farm
in Mabton, Washington, about 40 miles southeast of Yakima, Washington.

As part of our response plan that farm has been quarantined. After the
animal was slaughtered meat was sent for processing to Midway Meats in
Washington State. USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service is working
quickly to accurately determine the final disposition of the products
from the animal.

Even though the risks to human health is minimal based on current
evidence, we will take all appropriate actions out of an abundance of
caution.


-more-
Since 1990 the U.S. Department of Agriculture has had an aggressive
surveillance program in place to ensure detection and a swift response
in the event of the introduction of BSE in this country. As part of that
program we developed a response plan to be used if BSE is identified in
the United States.

While this is a presumptive finding, we have activated that response
plan today. We are making the appropriate notifications and
confirmations under the plan and start-up activities are beginning.

I have been in contact with Secretary Ridge and I would emphasize that
based on the information available this incident is not terrorist
related nor is it related in any way to our nation's heightened alert
status. I cannot stress this point strongly enough.

The safety of our food supply and public health are high priorities of
this Administration and high priorities of USDA. In the last year we
have tested 20,526 head of cattle for BSE, which is triple the level of
the previous year of 2002. The presumptive positive today is a result of
our aggressive surveillance program. This is a clear indication that our
surveillance and detection program is working.

USDA has been training and planning for several years in case this
situation presented itself. We continue to protect the U.S. food supply
and the public health and safeguard American agriculture.

In October we announced findings from the Harvard Center for Risk
Analysis that found that even if an infected animal were introduced into
the U.S. animal agriculture system, the risk of spreading is low based
on the safeguards and controls we have already put in place.

As part of our response to this situation we will provide daily
briefings to update the public on the status. We will continue to
provide you all of the information that we possibly can and do so as
quickly as possible.

We have released this finding even before final confirmation in the U.K.
because of our confidence in the testing that has already been carried
out, and in the interest of protecting the food supply and public
health. Information is available on our web site at www.usda.gov, and we
will be updating that information frequently.

We will also have regularly recorded updates for you, and you may call a
toll-free number, 1-866-4USDA-COM.

While this incident would represent the first finding of BSE in the
United States, we have worked hard to ensure that our response is swift
and effective. We will continue to work with partners such as the Food
and Drug Administration and the Department of Homeland Security to
protect our food supply and the public health.

At this time of year many Americans are making plans for the holidays
and for food. We see no need for people to alter those plans or their
eating habits or to do anything but have a happy and healthy holiday
season. I plan to serve beef for my Christmas dinner. And we remain
confident in the safety of our food supply.

I want to thank you all again for being here on this late hour and on
such short notice. But we did feel it was important to update you on
this important situation. Thank you. And we will be glad to take your
questions.
-more-
PARTICIPANT: Danielson, Bloomberg News. Is there any connection with
this finding to the incident in Alberta, Canada? That perhaps that cow
came down from Canada in any way?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: It is way too early to tell, but I would think that
the situation of trying to put those two incidences together would be
doubtful, primarily because they're different kinds of animals. This was
a Holstein cow.

MR. FAUVY: Randy Fabi with Reuters. Have you alerted any of your trading
partners to this incidence, and, if so, have they--have any countries
taken action against, close their borders to U.S. beef exports?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Again, it's very early, Randy. We have--we are in the
process of notifying a whole range of people at this point, including
our trading partners, and I can't at this point anticipate what they may
do in response to this announcement.

MR. SALANTE: Jonathan Salante with the Associated Press. What steps, if
any, are you specifically taking to prevent the spread of this disease,
and what assurances do we have that the beef is--that the other beef is
not contaminated?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, I think it's very important to recognize that
this disease does not spread easily. One of the things that people are
very confused about, and I found it as we went through situation when
Canada had a single case of BSE is a lot of times people don't
understand that this is not foot and mouth disease; it's not that highly
contagious disease that you often see spread so quickly as you did in
the U.K. at the beginning of 2001. So it's important to make that
distinction.

We have been taking steps since 1990 to protect our beef supplies from
this disease. We implemented a feed ban; we have required the removal of
any kind of risk materials from an animal like this one, a downer
animal, and we have a whole series of actions that have been taken to
reduce, substantially, the risk to public health from this disease if it
ever were found. And that's why we continue to believe that this
finding, while unfortunate, does not pose any kind of significant risk
to the human food chain.

MS. NAGEL: Sara Nagel, Fox News. Can you tell us who this will affect,
what the chances that it could become more widespread here in the U.S. are?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, I think at this point it's hard to tell, but
again, the unfortunate find of a single case in Canada earlier this year
gave us some experience of the type of investigation that we now have to
do. We did not know when the Canada investigation started, whether or
not there would be more cases or whether or not it would be an isolated
case. Indeed, after several months of checking into the situation, it
turned out to be an isolated case.

It is too early at this point to say whether or not this will be an
isolated case. What I can tell you that we're doing is we're going back
to the farm where this cow came from. We will be doing a complete
investigation on farm and tracing the animal back to its origin.

MR. RIVALL: Sorry, Audy Rivall, ABC News. Tell us a little bit more
about this particular farm. What do you plan to do about the other
animals? Are you saying that it was quarantined, and you're--and it's
going to test the other--the cows there?

-more-

And also, how concerned are you that the public outcry of people here on
the street hear "mad cow" there could be some sort of hysteria
associated with that? How concerned are you about that? And, certainly,
you must agree that it's a possibility, are you not?


SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, I would certainly hope that people will remain
confident in the food supply. As I said, we in some ways had some
experience with this because of the one find in Canada. What we found
because of the actions that were taken both in Canada and in the United
States with the case earlier this year is that demand for beef did not
diminish partly because we believe the people in North America know that
we have the strongest food safety systems in the world. We have the
protections in place, and again, I, personally, do not hesitate to
recommend to anyone that beef is absolutely safe to eat.

As to the farm, your other question, again we're in the very early
stages of the investigation. We have a complete book of protocols that
we're following with regard to how we would deal if we ever had an
outbreak of BSE. We're following all those steps, including we've
already located the farm, and that farm will be quarantined and an
investigation will begin. Again, this was very recent breaking news so
we're taking all steps that we can, and we will be continuing to update
you, as we indicated.

MR. DUNN: I'm (inaudible) Dunn from the Washington Post. Could you give
us some sense of narrative about the farm? Why was this particular farm
being studied? Was this animal significant in some way that you did
tests on this animal? How many other animals were there on this farm?
How many other farms are approximate to this farm?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Okay, first of all, the test was not done on the
farm. The test was done when the animal was presented at the slaughter
facility, and it is our standard operating procedure that what they call
downer animals will be tested if they--if they come to the slaughter
facility as a downer animal.

The farm has been identified since we got the test results back from the
animal. We've then gone to the plant just this afternoon, found where
the animal came from, and that's where the investigation will begin in
terms of looking at whether or not there is any other impact on cows on
that farm. But at this point the information with regard to the farm and
the surrounding areas is still pretty preliminary. I don't have that
information at this point.

MR. FABI: Randy Fabi with Reuters. I'm just--what is the likelihood that
any of this cow made it into the food supply? I know that you have
contacted the meat suppliers. Is there a recall underway?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: That's--that, Randy, is what we're trying to identify
at this point. We do believe that the product from the animal went to
two further processing plants. This plant was a very small plant. It
just slaughters a few animals, and our current understanding, and again
it's very preliminary, is that that product did go to further processing
plants. But again, one thing that is important to remember is that
muscle cuts of meats have almost no risk. In fact, as far as the science
is concerned, I know of no science to show that you can transmit BSE
from muscle cuts of meat. So the fact that it's gone to further
processing is not significant in terms of human health. But we are doing
the trace backs. We are looking at trace forwards, where did the product
go. And we will take appropriate actions as we make the determinations
as to where the product is and what has happened to it.

-more-

I think we -- I mentioned one of them, but there is actually two.

DR. MURANO: Let me first reiterate what the Secretary just said. You
should know that the tissues that are the infectious tissues from an
animal that has BSE, that is the central nervous system tissues, the
brains, spinal cord and so forth, of this animal did not enter the food
supply. Those tissues to rendering. So they did not enter the food
supply. That's very important to know.

Now, the muscles cuts, as the Secretary said, went from the slaughter
facility to another facility that did the deboning and that facility is
Midway Meats, as the Secretary mentioned. Then from there we believe
that it went to two other facilities. One is called Willamette and the
second one is called Interstate Meat, both in Washington State.

Again, the muscle cuts are where there is virtually no risk of BSE. The
material, the brain, spinal cord, distal ileum, which is where the BSE
agent resides, those materials did not enter the food supply.

PARTICIPANT: (inaudible) with CNN. You said the health risks are minimal
but what if someone did eat meat contaminated with this. What are the
health risks?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, again as Dr. Murano just indicated, there is
virtually no chance that the meat has been contaminated and the agents,
that would be the high risk agents in any animal have been removed from
this particular animal so we really don t believe that there is we
believe that the risk of any kind of human health effect is extremely low.

PARTICIPANT: Yes, but what if you find another animal on the farm that
is contaminated.

DR. MURANO: Well, you should know that the agent that causes mad cow
disease as I said earlier resides mainly in those tissues that I
mentioned, the brain, spinal cord, distal ileum, which were removed from
this animal and sent to rendering so they were not in the food supply.
The scientific community believes that there is no evidence to
demonstrate that muscle cuts or whole muscle meats that come from
animals that are infected with mad cow disease agent themselves the meat
itself is effective to human beings. There is no evidence to show that
and that is as far as we can state that. It s a good thing obviously
that the infectious materials from this animal were removed and sent to
rendering which is something that we do as standard practice on these
downer animals that are tested by APHIS.

PARTICIPANT: Christopher (inaudible) with Reuters. I was wondering if
you could tell us a little bit more about what is going to be happening
in the U.K. specifically and what your timetable is for getting final
results on those tests?

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, as I indicated, the sample is being flown to a
laboratory in the U.K. which is one of the world's best laboratories for
analyzing BSE. And that will take a number of days, probably -- probably
three to five days to get final results on that sample.

So, again, we are getting it there as quickly as we possibly can. But
the results that we have been able to confirm in our own laboratories
have been something that we felt that we ought to take action on.

PARTICIPANT: You have said that you have quarantined the farm itself.
Have you imposed any kind of quarantine on the slaughterhouse at the
three facilities that are downstream?


-more-
SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, we have people that have gone into the
slaughterhouse as well as are going into the downstream facilities,
starting to review records. But we will be doing a complete review and
investigation of the entire food chain where this animal might have been
transferred during the process.

Well, I don't think you would normally impose quarantine on a plant. You
impose quarantine on a farm. But we will be doing an investigation of
the plants to determine exactly where the product might have gone.

[Pause.]

SECRETARY VENEMAN: Well, we are taking all appropriate action. We first
need to identify where the product went before we can take action. I am
not saying that we are not taking action. As I said in my opening
remarks, we are going to take all appropriate actions based upon the
investigation.

I know that the tendency is to want to know all the answers right away.
And we decided that we couldn't wait to give the public the information
about this situation, but we certainly don't have all answers today. And
that is why we will be continuing to update both our web site and the
call in number that I indicated earlier and we will be conducting daily
press briefings to update you on what is going on.

Thank you.

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Docket Management Docket: 02N-0273 - Substances Prohibited From Use in
Animal Food or Feed; Animal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed
Comment Number: EC -10
Accepted - Volume 2

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Jan03/012403/8004be07.html

PART 2

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Jan03/012403/8004be09.html

Asante/Collinge et al, that BSE transmission to the 129-methionine
genotype can lead to an alternate phenotype that is indistinguishable
from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest _sporadic_ CJD;

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/slides/3923s1_OPH.htm

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WASHINGTON FIRM RECALLS BEEF PRODUCTS FOLLOWING PRESUMPTIVE BSE DETERMINATION
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:45:32 -0600
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
To: BSE-L@uni-karlsruhe.de


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CLASS II RECALL
Congressional and Public
Affairs

HEALTH RISK: LOW
Steven Cohen (202) 720-9113

FSIS-RC-067-2003

WASHINGTON FIRM RECALLS BEEF PRODUCTS FOLLOWING PRESUMPTIVE BSE
DETERMINATION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2003 - Verns Moses Lake Meats, a Moses
Lake, Wash., establishment, is voluntarily recalling approximately
10,410 pounds of raw beef that may have been exposed to tissues
containing the infectious agent that causes bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety
and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The beef subject to this Class II recall was produced on Dec. 9 and was
shipped to several establishments where it was further processed. FSIS
is continuing its investigation to ensure that all distribution of the
beef products is correctly identified.


FSIS' designation of this recall as Class II is due to the extremely
low likelihood that the beef being recalled contains the infectious
agent that causes BSE. According to scientific evidence, the tissues of
highest infectivity are the brain, spinal cord, and distal ileum, which
were removed from the rest of the carcass at slaughter. Therefore, the
meat produced were cuts that would not be expected to be infected or
have an adverse public health impact, but are being recalled out of an
abundance of caution.

Media and consumers with questions about the recall should contact Tom
Ellestad, company secretary, at 509-765-4182.

Consumers with other food safety questions can phone the toll-free USDA
Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline. The hotline is available
in English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
(Eastern Time), Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages
are available 24 hours a day.

BSE is a progressive neurological disease among cattle. It belongs to
a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies. Also included in that family of illnesses is the
human disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), which is
believed to be caused by eating neural tissue, such as brain and spinal
cord, from BSE-affected cattle.


NOTE: Access news releases and other information at the FSIS Web site at
http://www.fsis.usda.gov

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CONFIRMATION OF BSE CASE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Information received on 28 December 2003 from Dr Peter Fernandez, Associate Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, DC:

The OIE Reference Laboratory for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Weybridge, United Kingdom, confirmed the diagnostic results obtained at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, USA, of finding a positive case of BSE in the State of Washington.

The positive Holstein cow was traced back from the slaughter plant, where the positive brain tissue was collected, to a 4,000-animal dairy premises near Mabton, Washington. Trace-ins and trace-outs from that index premises are underway.

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OIE Animal Health Information Department
information.dept@oie.int

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CONFIRMATION DU CAS D'ENCÉPHALOPATHIE SPONGIFORME BOVINE AUX ÉTATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE

Traduction d'informations reçues le 28 décembre 2003 du Docteur Peter Fernandez, administrateur associé du service d'inspection zoosanitaire et phytosanitaire, département fédéral de l'agriculture (USDA), Washington :

Le Laboratoire de référence de l'OIE pour l'encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine (ESB), situé à Weybridge, au Royaume-Uni, a confirmé le diagnostic porté par les Laboratoires des Services Vétérinaires Nationaux (Ames, Iowa, Etats-Unis) concernant un cas positif d'ESB dans l'Etat de Washington.

D'après l'enquête de traçabilité réalisée en amont de l'abattoir où le prélèvement de tissus encéphaliques a été effectué, la vache Holstein positive provenait d'une exploitation de 4 000 vaches laitières située près de Mabton, dans l'Etat de Washington. Les entrées et sorties d'animaux qui ont eu lieu dans cette exploitation font l'objet d'enquêtes.

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Service de l'information sanitaire
OIE
information.dept@oie.int

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CONFIRMACION DEL CASO DE ENCEFALOPATÍA ESPONGIFORME BOVINA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Traducción de información recibida el 28 de diciembre de 2003 del Dr. Peter Fernández, Administrador Asociado del Servicio de Inspección Zoosanitaria y Fitosanitaria, Departamento Federal de Agricultura (USDA), Washington:

El Laboratorio de Referencia de la OIE para la encefalopatía espongiforme bovina (EEB) ubicado en Weybridge (Reino Unido), confirmó el diagnóstico de los Laboratorios de los Servicios Veterinarios Nacionales (Ames, Iowa) en relación con un caso positivo de EEB en el estado de Washington.

Se rastreó el caso de la vaca Holstein positiva hasta una explotación lechera de 4.000 cabezas situada cerca de Mabton, en el estado de Washington. Las entradas y salidas del ganado de esta explotación son objeto de investigaciones retrospectivas.

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Departamento de Información Zoosanitaria
OIE
information.dept@oie.int

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BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Follow-up report No. 1 (confirmation of diagnosis)

See also: 26 December 2003

Information received on 28 and 31 December 2003 from Dr Peter Fernandez, Associate Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, DC:

End of previous report period: 23 December 2003 (see Disease Information, 16 [52], 280, dated 26 December 2003).

End of this report period: 30 December 2003.

Diagnosis:

The OIE Reference Laboratory for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Weybridge, United Kingdom, confirmed the diagnostic results obtained at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Ames, Iowa, that indicated a case of BSE in the State of Washington.

Epidemiology:

The BSE-positive Holstein cow was traced back from the slaughter plant where the brain tissue had been collected to a 4,000-animal dairy premises near Mabton, Washington.

Preliminary tracing indicates that the animal may have entered the United States from Canada between 28 August and 25 October 2001. Other animals from the same herd of origin that accompanied the animal in question to the United States are being traced.

DNA testing on genetic material from the BSE-positive cow, its reported sire and progeny, is being conducted both in Canada and the United States to confirm the preliminary tracing information.

Current information available would place the birth date of the animal in question in early April 1997, before the feed ban restrictions introduced in both Canada and the United States in 1997 following the recommendation of the OIE.

A feed investigation is also under way.

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http://www.oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_64.HTM#Sec0

TSS


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:38:55 +0100

Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

From: TSS

Subject: USDA Statement: BSE Update December 29, 2003

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:24:50 -0500
From: USDA News
To: USDA-OCNEWS-PUBLIC-L@newsbox.usda.gov
Subject: USDA Statement: BSE Update December 29, 2003
For full release please click link below:

http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2003/12/0448.htm


Release No. 0448.03
BSE Update
December 29, 2003

USDA continues to work with the Canadian officials to verify traceback of
the index animal. Records obtained from the owner correspond with Canada's
records indicating that this animal was approximately 6-1/2 years old at
the time of slaughter. USDA is working with Canada to conduct DNA testing
to verify that the correct animal has been identified. The age of the
animal is significant. She would have been born before feed bans were
implemented in North America in August 1997. The feed bans prohibit the
inclusion of ruminant protein in feed intended for other ruminants to eat.
That practice has been identified time and time again as the primary means
by which BSE spread.

On the morning of December 25, the BSE world reference lab in Weybridge,
England, confirmed USDA's December 23 preliminary diagnosis of BSE in a
single nonambulatory dairy cow that had been slaughtered on December 9 at
Vern's Moses Lake Meats in Washington State.

At the time of USDA's preliminary diagnosis on December 23, USDA's Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a Class II recall for the
facility's entire day's production. The recall was classified as Class II
due to the extremely low likelihood that the beef being recalled contains
the infectious agent that causes BSE.

The herd the affected animal came from is under a State quarantine in
Washington. While USDA has not made any decisions on the dispositions of
this herd, any cattle that die on the farm will be tested for BSE.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has determined
the following additional information through its traceback investigation:

· USDA is continuing to trace the other 73 head of cattle that came
in the same shipment. Furthermore, USDA has identified another shipment
of 8 cows from the same herd in Canada which USDA is also tracing.

· The cow had three calves while she was in the United States. One
of them died shortly after birth. One of them remains in the herd in
Washington State where the index cow had most recently lived. That herd is
under a "hold order" placed by the State of Washington-again, not to stop
the spread of disease, because BSE is not contagious, but rather to prevent
further complications to traceback and traceforward investigations. USDA is
continuing to consider the appropriate disposition of these animals.

· A third calf from the index cow-her most recently born bull calf-is
currently commingled in a herd of about 460 young bull calves, all around
30 days of age. That group of calves remains under a "hold order" pending
completion of USDA's epidemiological investigation. Maternal transmission
of BSE from mother to calf is very rare, if it occurs at all, but the
animals are being held out of an abundance of caution, to preserve public
and international confidence in the health of the U.S. cattle herd.

USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has determined the following
additional information:

· Since the discovery of BSE, FSIS has been working around the clock
to protect the public health. A recall was initiated out of an abundance
of caution following the report of one cow testing presumptive positive for
BSE. Even though USDA remains confident in the safety of these beef
products, USDA is and will continue to verify distribution and control of
all products related to this recall.

· To briefly summarize the current situation on the beef products
related to the December 23, 2003 BSE recall. The beef products were
distributed from Verns Moses Lake to Midway Meats on December 11. Alls of
the central nervous system related tissue, brain, spinal cord and distal
ileum, were removed at the Verns facility during the slaughter that
occurred on December 9, 2003. Those are the tissues that are most likely
to contain the BSE agent. Because the meat leaving Verns did not contain
these high risk materials, the recalled beef presents an essentially zero
risk to consumers.

· FSIS is verifying that the customers have been notified of the
recalled products and know how to handle the product.

· FSIS has found that the products were distributed to 42 locations
from Interstate Meats and Willamette Valley Meats. The vast majority of
these products-at least 80 percent---were distributed to stores in Oregon
and Washington.

· FSIS is verifying that these 42 distributors are complying with
their requirement to notify their customers.

· In overseeing this process, FSIS has found that all of the
companies that have received these products have been proactively notifying
their customers.

APHIS and FSIS continue to work closely with our colleagues in State and
other Federal agencies as part of this investigation. Information will be
posted to http://www.usda.gov as it becomes available.

Consumers with other food safety questions can phone the toll-free USDA
Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline. The hotline is available in
English and Spanish and can be reached from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern
Time), Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available
24 hours a day.

#
USDA News
oc.news@usda.gov
202 720-9035
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Greetings,

reading the wsj article you speak of right now at the library;


"The are making these sweeping statements for which they don't have the
data," said Stanley Prusiner, the University of California, San Fransico,
researcher who won a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work on the malformed prion proteins
linked to mad-co and related ailments in humans, sheep and many other species.

snip...

and then you go on to read that Paul Brown is agreeing with Veneman;

"I think Veneman is right. Cuts of meat you just don't have to worry about.
I certainly don't." Dr. Brown says...

sounds like Gummer now...SHOW ME THE DATA!

Evidently Antonio got mine, then they go on to say to talk about the German
study, the study by Aguzzi, and i sent him that data. at least he printed
it, even though it was the last paragraph of the paper article...

TSS

Quoting >:

> Article by Antonio Regalado, on page B1 lead column, entitled "Scientific
> Data Offer No Proof of BSE Safety".
>
> I do not have online access to the full text, which would be nice to have,
> but the story had signficant new information from Prusiner and Aguzzi, the
> Prusiner lab saying "it's inevitable that beef cuts will be shown to
harbor
> mad-cow prions" and Prusiner himself faulting USDA for "making sweeping
> statements for which they don't have the data." According to a risk
analyst
> in Princeton, lack of credibile reassurances from USDA has been a
> "gargantuan" mistake, leading to a comparison with MAFF.
>
> There is also some good information on expected impacts, for example the
> 44,000 metric tons of beef stranded in shipping containers on the docks or
> at sea, which USAToday laughably reported this as 44 tons or ten chevy
> suburbans. Prices are expected to stablize at about 25% off current levels
> or 72 cents a pound.
>
> The daily USDA briefing today abruptly shifted character, from provided an
> update on the investigation to an hour-long celebration of the BSE
> Response Plan script, read by a sincere young man with a degree in the
> public relations field, whom the transcript identifies as Dr. Ron DeHaven.
> A mind-numbing recitation of cliches, scientific rubbish, thank-yous to
> Sunne Dene dairy owners for excellent cooperation followed.
>
> Questions from press attendees (no more call-in questions allowed)
> triggered shaggy dog solliloquies on distantly related topics, each
> celebrating the system working, these incredible science-based procedures
> set in place over the years well-suited to detect the low level of BSE
> assumbed present in this country. Reporters were not allowed followups
when
> their questions were not answered, in the interests of time.
>
> There was slight new information, 42 new distributors of the infected meat
> and Wisconsin being added but soon taken off [meant Washington]. The full
> transcript is not quite availble at 2:11pm. 8 other cows were shipped to
> destinations unknown, making 1 infected + 81 that we know from the British
> herd stats won't be infected [actual USDA choice quote].
>
> http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2003/12/0447.htm
>
> Yeah right on Dave:
> "Foreign governments need to open their gates and allow this product,"
says
> Dave Wood of Harris Ranch Beef, one of the largest beef processors on the
> West Coast. He says Harris has several containers of beef on the docks or
> at sea, intended for South Korea and Japan. Rancher Dan Morgan was
> luckier. Next week, he expected to fill a container with 10,000 pounds of
> beef destined for Japan.
>
> You tell 'em Ron:
> Ron DeHaven, chief veterinarian with the Department of Agriculture, called
> the ban on imports of U.S. livestock and beef an "overreaction." DeHaven
> said research has shown that eating muscle of cattle raised in even places
> with moderate to high risk of mad-cow disease is extremely safe. "The
> restrictions (on imports) that are in place now are not well-founded in
> science," DeHaven said during a telephone news conference yesterday.
>
>
> Cattle inventory, January 1, 2003:
> U.S.‹96.1 million, down from 1996 peak of 103.5 million
> Canada‹13.4 million head
>
>
> Questions I asked at USDA hotline 202-720-4623 -- call was returned by a
> very pleasant young woman who knew absolutely nothing.
>
> 1. The metal ear tag being discussed, was it a Canadian bangs/brucellosis
> vaccination tag, and if so, what date was the vaccination?
>
> 2. Was the tag still on the ear at time of slaughter [yes?]; did the vet
> inspecting downer cows at Vern's save the ear and the tag [didn't know],
or
> just write down the number of the tag? Or was the tag number simply
> recorded by the dairy in Oct 01 at the time of pickup at Mattawa.
>
> 3. At Eastpoint ID, at time of border crossing, was the cattle truck cargo
> manifest [bill of lading] simply xeroxed, or was there visual inspection
> and validation of ear tag numbers at that time? What information was taken
> at the border crossying?
>
> 4. The cow was a Holstein dairy cow at time of slaughter. How could this
> have come from an Edmonton cross-bred beef operation?
>
> 5. Sunny Dene says they purchased 100 cows in Oct 2001. Yet there were
only
> 74 cows in the two trucks from Canada. Only one cow was purchased at
> Toppenish auction. This leaves 25 cows unaccounted for.
>
> 6. How many grams of tissue were taken on Dec 9 and sent to Ames? Was any
> retained at Moses Lake? What sort of tag numbers were recorded by the
> downer vet?
>
> 7. Was the tissue frozen or fixed in formaldehyde? How many grams of
tissue
> are left for DNA testing, after Ames used up some and Weybridge used up
> some. Exactly which animals are availabe for DNA testing? The recent bull
> calf is 1 of 400 with no ear tags.
>
> 8. Dr. Prusiner says the Japanese and Italian cases are a different strain
> from British BSE. If Mabton is not confirmed yet as the British strain of
> BSE, how do you already know its properties and risks to consumers? Is
the
> milk being quarantined or sold to Darigold? DeHaven said it
was "premature
> to speculate" on whether the Washington cow was stricken with the same
> strain of mad cow disease that was found in Britain.
>
> 9. Japan has a confirmed 21 month old case and a confirmed 23 month old
> case. The cow was imported in August 2001. That's 28 months, long enough
to
> have acquired the disease in the US. We have a whistleblower saying he
> personally unloaded rail cars of illegal bone meal at the Sunny Dene
dairy.
> What do the feed records at Sunny Dene say?
>
> 10. Dr. Prusiner says USDA has failed to get good advice from US
> scientists. Who are your top 3 BSE scientists with laboratory research
> experience? Which scientists at USDA are in consultations with Dr.
> Prusiner's lab, what accounts for huge differences in assessment of the
> published scientific record?
>
> 11. Is the US going to provide financial compensation to Alberta producers
> for the defamation/slander on Saturday? Was this just ammo for the futile
> trade mission to Japan that already ended in humiliation?
>
> 12. Is it true that 75,000 live dairy replacers were imported from Canada
> to US in 2001 alone?
>
> My updated list of discrepancies:
>
> 1. ear tag integrity (not validated, animal and human chain of custody?)
>
> 2. time elapsed enough (based on Japanese datafor infection to have
> occurred onsite in Mabdon
>
> 3. serious age discrepancies 4 vs 6.5 resolved by Mattawa but not really
> compatible with dairy needs.
>
> 4. animal type discrepancies: fresh heifer springer Holstein vs pregnant
> with 3rd calf from cross-bred beef cattle
>
> 5. Mattawa WA facility discrepancies (heifer, not dairy cow facility).
>
> 6. DNA testing not done and maybe not doable (Canada has source herd and
> calf DNA?)
>
> 7. BSE test results on the 4400 Mabton cows to be slaughtered could show
> disease pervasive there (rail cars of supplement from Canada fed out)
>
> 8. failure to associate time and location of infection to Canada. fairness
> to Alberta producers.
>
> In some ways, it is completely irrelvent, since North America is one big
> herd and one big feed store for all practical purposes
>
> On Dec. 11, more than 10,000 pounds of beef from those cows went to a
> distributor in
> Centralia, Wash. Within a week, that company and two Oregon distributors
> had cut and ground
> parts from those cows and others into more than 20,000 pounds of meat, now
> being recalled.
>
> The inedible parts of the cow -- head, spine, parts of the small
intestine,
> among others --
> were rendered into protein and fats, products used for everything from
> cosmetics to cat food.
> So many animals mix in rendering that Baker Commodities has in its
> Washington plants about
> 1.5 million pounds of product that could be contaminated.
>
> In Yakima County, local officials are standing by to coordinate and
> assist should federal authorities order the
> slaughter of a herd of
> Sunnyside calves. Within the 400-head herd is a
> calf recently born
> to the diseased Mabton Holstein. Authorities
> haven't been able to
> identify the specific calf. The Washington
National
> Guard, as well as Yakima County
> emergency personnel, would be involved in the
> slaughter, On Sunday, officials said the "depopulation" had not yet
started,
> but is likely to occur sometime this week. The
> ranch has not been
> identified.
>
> Friedlander said that when he worked as a USDA veterinarian in a large
> Pennsylvania plant, he felt "all kinds of pressure" to approve animals for
> slaughter. So many animals come through that there's no way to do a
> thorough inspection, he said. On a typical day, he said, about 1,200
> animals would be awaiting his inspection at 5 a.m. Each day, he said,
there
> were about 25 to 30 "downer" cows -- animals that couldn't walk.
> His inspection involved climbing up on a catwalk, looking through each
pen
> and scanning whether any animals were sick. "They put these cows in like
> sardines," cramming about 40 cows into pens meant for 30, he said. "What
am
> I going to see, really?" He said the animals are walked through alleys
15
> feet wide, in one direction and in the opposite direction, so that he can
> inspect both sides. Instead of walking slowly and in a single line, he
said
> the cows are run through fast, six or seven abreast. "Maybe you see the
> first and second, but the third, fifth or sixth, forget it," Friedlander
> said. "Right from the beginning there are loopholes in this whole thing."
>
> The final report into Canada's single case of mad cow disease could not
> determine where the infected
> animal came from originally, but it did
bring
> up several possibilities, including a shipment of 25,000
> pregnant cows from the U.S. to Canada in
> 1998. more than 70 percent of the cattle in the 1998 shipment were Black
> Angus
>
> The full text of Canada's final report can be found at
> www.oie.int/eng/info/hebdo/AIS_06.HTM#Sec2. [eda]
> That cow had died on a farm in Alberta, though its earlier origins wer
> never confirmed. Up until Canada's mad cow scare, animals could
> move across the border several times in their lifetime. But Canada's
> mad cow was a Black Angus and the U.S. mad cow is
> believed to be a purebred Holstein and they are two distinct breeds,
> Evans said. An international panel of animal disease experts gave its
> stamp of approval to the sweeping investigation after spending the weekend
> scrutinizing it, but the team's final report may be two weeks away.
>
> The panel's Swiss leader, Ulrich Kihm, said he believed Canada's beef was
> safe for export, but he estimated there will be other North American cases
> of the deadly brain wasting disease, which crippled Britain's beef
industry
> in the 1990s.
>
>
> Testing companies. Firms that test for mad cow have gotten boosts. Shares
> of Strategic
> Diagnostics jumped 17.4% on Wednesday. It tests
> animal feed for proteins connected to the
> disease. Bio-Rad Laboratories, which climbed 3.9%
> on Friday, has the leading test for the
> disease in Europe and Japan.
>
> http://www.yakima-herald.com/
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/
> http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian//
> http://www.dailysunnews.com/DSNNews.html
> http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/4552330p-4526736c.html
> http://www.allnewspapers.com/world-
media/North_America/United_States/Washington
> /Daily_Newspapers/
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/bse/bse.html
>
> Canada:
> http://www.calgaryherald.com
> http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/
> http://www.southam.com/edmontonjournal/
> http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonSun/
> http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoSun/
>
>
> U.S. Officials Say Suspect Beef Went to a Wider Region
>
> By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
>
> Published: December 29, 2003
> Officials from the Agriculture Department, Dr. Kenneth Petersen, left,
> and Dr. Ron DeHaven, at a news conference on Sunday.
>
>
> WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 Ñ Federal officials said Sunday that meat linked to
> the investigation of a case of mad cow disease had been distributed to
> eight states and Guam, more widely than investigators initially believed.
> Federal officials have asked any stores or suppliers who believe they may
> have the meat to remove it from shelves and asked any customers to
> return suspect meat to stores. So far, Agriculture Department officials
> said, roughly 100 consumers, most from Oregon and Washington State, have
> called the department's hot lines to say they believe they have consumed
> some of the beef. Agriculture officials said the likelihood that any of
> the distributed beef had been tainted was slim, because all of the tissues
> known to be affected by the disease Ñ those from the brain, spinal cord
and
> a part of the intestine Ñ had been removed before the carcass was
> processed. A recall was being maintained, officials said, "out of an
> abundance of caution." "Even though we remain confident in the safety of
> these beef products," said Dr. Kenneth Petersen, chief veterinary officer
> of the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service, in
a
> news conference, "we are and we will continue to verify distribution and
> control of all products related to the recall." Initially, agriculture
> officials said a Dec. 23 recall of about 10,000 pounds of meat from a
Dec.
> 9 slaughter of cattle in Washington State that included an infected
> Holstein cow involved only four states: Washington, Oregon, California and
> Nevada. But meat from the batch has now also been identified in
Alaska,
> Montana, Hawaii, Idaho and Guam, Dr. Petersen said. The news came as
> agriculture officials in the United States and Canada continued to spar
> over the origins of the cow on a dairy farm in Washington State that was
> found to have mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform
> encephalopathy. On Saturday, officials in Washington said they believed
the
> diseased animal had originated in a herd in Alberta, Canada. Canadian
> agriculture officials and cattle industry experts immediately said that
was
> a premature reaction. "America's Beef: Blame Canada," read a headline in
> The Toronto Sun Sunday, reflecting the mood of many Canadians. There are
> considerable discrepancies between the positions of American and Canadian
> officials on the investigation, including the age of the diseased
animal
> and the reliability of methods used to trace the animal's origins. So far,
> agriculture officials in Washington are basing their argument that Canada
> was the source of the first reported mad cow disease case in the United
> States on an ear tag that they said had come from the infected cow. But
> many American experts, echoing complaints of Canadian agriculture
> officials, said that was unreliable evidence for building a case. The
> ear tag was recovered from the animal when it was slaughtered. Records
> matched the ear tag number to a herd in Canada, officials said on
Saturday.
> But three days before that announcement, American officials said that
> records on the diseased animal were terrible and that its birthplace
might
> never be known. In Washington, officials worked to maintain a diplomatic
> balancing act: trying not to damage relations with Canada while at the
> same time trying to placate the more than 30 countries now banning
> American beef. "We are not in disagreement with our Canadian counterparts
> about the data we have received," said Dr. Ron DeHaven, chief veterinary
> officer for the Department of Agriculture, who said he continued "to work
> very well," with Dr. Brian Evans, his Canadian counterpart. Dr. Evans
> responded to Saturday's announcement by saying more work needed to be done
> before the United States could confirm that the diseased cow had come from
> Canada. "Here in the United States," Dr. DeHaven said, "we decided it was
> necessary to provide the public with the information that we have in order
> to ensure people have accurate and comprehensive information and an
> accurate overall picture of the situation as we know it."
>
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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [flounder9@verizon.net]

Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:09 PM

To: FSIS RegulationsComments

Subject: [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

Page 1 of 98

8/3/2006

Greetings FSIS,

I would kindly like to comment on the following ;


http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf



response to Singeltary et al ;


http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/a4b69cec-0233-49bb-b5fa-d198876bad90/BSE_Risk_Assess_Response_Public_Comments.pdf?MOD=AJPERES



http://federal.eregulations.us/rulemaking/document/APHIS-2006-0026-0012



Monday, January 08, 2001 3:03 PM

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/01/slides/3681s2_09.pdf



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



Sunday, August 11, 2013

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.


 
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




Friday, November 22, 2013

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

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




layperson


MOM DOD 12/14/97 confirm ‘hvCJD’ just made a promise to mom, NEVER FORGET! and never let them forget. ...




Sunday, December 22, 2013

10 years after mad cow cover up started, and 16 years after Moms demise to hvCJD, were still feeding cows to cows

http://madcowusda.blogspot.com/2013/12/10-years-after-mad-cow-cover-up-and-16.html