From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 10:14 PM
Subject: In the belly of the beast
Greetings Rollingstone et al,
in reply to IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, I would like to comment please. I
have been investigating this for over a decade daily, i.e. the infamous MAD COW
FEED BAN IN THE USA, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE aka Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE prion disease. I dedicate this to my mother, whom
in 1997 died from confirmed Heidenhain Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease hvCJD
confirmed DOD December 14, 1997, 16 years ago today.
just made a promise to her back then, never forget, and never let them
forget. my mom did everything Linda Blair did in the movie the exorcist, except
spin her head 360 degress, she jerked so bad, it too 3 adults to hold her down
while screaming what’s wrong with me, what’s wrong with me, why can’t I stop
this. but they said mad cow disease was not here in the USA, that it just
happens spontaneously in 85%+ of all human TSE i.e. the sporadic CJD’s. well,
there was mad cow disease in the USA, this proven now, and not just the typical
mad cow disease, but also, the atypical strains. also, Chronic Wasting Disease
CWD in cervids, aka mad deer disease, same disease, just different species, CWD
spreading with no stopping it in sight. as well, you have scrapie and the
atypical scrapie (Nor-98), which has spread coast to coast in North America. ALL
OF WHICH HAS BEEN RENDERED UP AND FED TO ANIMALS, FOR HUMAN AND ANIMAL
CONSUMPTION. you know, there is Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy and Canine
Spongiform Encephalopathy, render them up with the other dead animals for feed.
if you think that mad cow feed ban of 1997 was part of a triple firewall, think
again (I think .005 grams of tainted feed is lethal enough for more than one
cow. ...
1 decade post mad cow feed ban ;
10,000,000+ LBS. of PROHIBITED BANNED MAD COW FEED I.E. BLOOD LACED MBM IN
COMMERCE USA 2007
Date: March 21, 2007 at 2:27 pm PST
RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY MEDICINES -- CLASS II
PRODUCT
Bulk cattle feed made with recalled Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried,
Recall # V-024-2007
CODE
Cattle feed delivered between 01/12/2007 and 01/26/2007
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Pfeiffer, Arno, Inc, Greenbush, WI. by conversation on February 5, 2007.
Firm initiated recall is ongoing.
REASON
Blood meal used to make cattle feed was recalled because it was cross-
contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal that had been
manufactured on common equipment and labeling did not bear cautionary BSE
statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
42,090 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
WI
___________________________________
PRODUCT
Custom dairy premix products: MNM ALL PURPOSE Pellet, HILLSIDE/CDL Prot-
Buffer Meal, LEE, M.-CLOSE UP PX Pellet, HIGH DESERT/ GHC LACT Meal, TATARKA, M
CUST PROT Meal, SUNRIDGE/CDL PROTEIN Blend, LOURENZO, K PVM DAIRY Meal, DOUBLE B
DAIRY/GHC LAC Mineral, WEST PIONT/GHC CLOSEUP Mineral, WEST POINT/GHC LACT Meal,
JENKS, J/COMPASS PROTEIN Meal, COPPINI - 8# SPECIAL DAIRY Mix, GULICK, L-LACT
Meal (Bulk), TRIPLE J - PROTEIN/LACTATION, ROCK CREEK/GHC MILK Mineral,
BETTENCOURT/GHC S.SIDE MK-MN, BETTENCOURT #1/GHC MILK MINR, V&C DAIRY/GHC
LACT Meal, VEENSTRA, F/GHC LACT Meal, SMUTNY, A- BYPASS ML W/SMARTA, Recall #
V-025-2007
CODE
The firm does not utilize a code - only shipping documentation with
commodity and weights identified.
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Rangen, Inc, Buhl, ID, by letters on February 13 and 14, 2007. Firm
initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Products manufactured from bulk feed containing blood meal that was cross
contaminated with prohibited meat and bone meal and the labeling did not bear
cautionary BSE statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
9,997,976 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
ID and NV
END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR MARCH 21, 2007
Thursday, September 3, 2009
429,128 lbs. feed for ruminant animals may
have been contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT 429,128
lbs. feed for ruminant animals may have been contaminated with prohibited
material Recall # V-258-2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
re-FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT
contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009 and Recall #
V-256-2009
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
To: CVMHomeP@cvm.fda.gov
Cc: FOIASTAFF@oig.usda.gov ;
paffairs@oig.hhs.gov ; HHSTips@oig.hhs.gov ; phyllis.fong@oig.usda.gov
FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT 429,128
lbs. feed for ruminant animals may have been contaminated with prohibited
material Recall # V-258-2009
September 4, 2009
TO:
Food and Drug Administration
Division of Freedom of Information (HFI-35)
Office of Shared Services
Office of Public Information and Library
Services
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Or requests may be sent via fax to: fax
number 301-443-1726 or 301-443-1719. If experience difficulty sending a fax,
please call (301) 443-2414.
FROM:
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
Greetings FDA FOIE, and the Honorable Phyllis
Fong et al @ OIG FOIA,
ANOTHER FOIA REQUEST PLEASE !
PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT ;
Canine Spongiform Encephalopathy CSE TSE
>>> Is anybody even looking at the
dogs..especially with CWD now so widespread? <<<
NA, na, na........they know what they will
find, Canine Spongiform Encephalopathy, and it was documented, but then they
decided not to push the issue anymore, they had enough mad cow disease in
different species to deal with. so they screwed the brains up with dogs and deer
in the UK. then we took a page or two from the UKs testing protocols and USDA
screwed the brains up with cattle, again, and again, and again. then played the
stupid card. ya can't fix stupid. ... TSS
Monday, March 8, 2010
Canine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka MAD DOG
DISEASE
Greetings,
Another Big Myth about Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathy, is that TSE will not transmit to dogs. This is simply
NOT TRUE. IT is perfectly legal to feed dogs and cats here in the USA bovine
meat and bone meal. Canine dementia is real. how many dogs and cats here in the
USA are tested for mad cow disease ? I just received this F.O.I.A. request, and
thought I would post it here with a follow up on MAD DOG DISEASE. This is a
follow up with additional data I just received on a FOIA request in 2009 ;
see full text, and be sure to read the BSE
Inquiry documents toward the bottom ;
http://caninespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2010/03/canine-spongiform-encephalopathy-aka.html
Monday, March 8, 2010
UPDATE 429,128 lbs. feed for ruminant animals
may have been contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009
Monday, March 1, 2010
ANIMAL PROTEIN I.E. MAD COW FEED IN COMMERCE
A REVIEW 2010
snip...see more here;
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Horse Meat, slaughter for consumption USA
http://equinespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/01/horse-meat-slaughter-for-consumption.html
Saturday, August 4, 2012
*** Final Feed Investigation Summary -
California BSE Case - July 2012
It was proven in Oprah Winfrey's trial, that
Cactus Cattle feeders, sent neurologically ill cattle, some with encephalopathy
stamped on the dead slips, were picked up and sent to the renders, along with
sheep carcasses.
Web posted Friday, January 23, 1998 5:49 a.m.
CT
Witness testifies some ill cattle sent to
rendering plant
By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer
Witness testifies some ill cattle sent to
rendering plant
By CHIP CHANDLER Globe-News Staff
Writer
snip...
Mike Engler -- son of Paul Engler, the
original plaintiff and owner of Cactus Feeders Inc. -- agreed that more than 10
cows with some sort of central nervous system disorder were sent to Hereford
By-Products.
The younger Engler, who has a doctorate in
biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University, was the only witness jurors heard
Thursday in the Oprah Winfrey defamation trial. His testimony will resume this
morning.
According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture
report from which Winfrey attorney Charles Babcock quoted, encephalitis caused
by unknown reasons could be a warning sign for bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
or mad cow disease.
Encephalitis was indicated on the death
certificates -- or ``dead slips'' -- of three Cactus Feeders cows discussed in
court. The slips then were stamped, ``Picked up by your local used cattle
dealer'' before the carcasses were taken to the rendering plant.
snip...
Web posted Wednesday, February 18, 1998 2:02
p.m. CT
Graphic pictures greet Winfrey jury
By KAY LEDBETTER Globe-News Farm and Ranch
Editor
Pictures of sheep heads, euthanized pets and
roadkill greeted jurors this morning as they returned to the continuation of the
cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey lawsuit.
The lawsuit continues today in U.S. District
Mary Lou Robinson's court, but in a much diminished state.
snip...
Defense lawyer Charles Babcock called Van
Smith, a City Paper reporter from Baltimore who had written an article on
rendering plants in September 1995.
Smith and Babcock went through more than 50
pictures taken as the reporter toured the Valley Proteins plant in Baltimore and
followed a rendering truck to the local animal shelter, a sausage plant and a
slaughterhouse.
The pictures showed offal being emptied from
the slaughterhouses. They showed animal shelter workers in the euthanasia room;
barrels of dead animals in a refrigerated room at the animal shelter; waste meat
from the sausage plant; and dead sheep from the slaughterhouse.
Web posted Thursday, February 19, 1998 5:32
a.m. CT
Defense opens case
Cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey
By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer
snip...
Van Smith, a reporter with City Paper in
Baltimore, testified about an article he wrote on rendering plants. Smith said
he saw sheep taken to a plant despite a voluntary ban on using processed sheep
in protein-enhanced feed, backing up a statement Lyman made on Winfrey's
show.
Under cross-examination, Smith said he was
not sure whether the sheep were used for feed or other animal-derived
products.
snip...
Van Smith, a reporter with City Paper in
Baltimore, testified about an article he wrote on rendering plants. Smith said
he saw sheep taken to a plant despite a voluntary ban on using processed sheep
in protein-enhanced feed, backing up a statement Lyman made on Winfrey's
show.
Under cross-examination, Smith said he was
not sure whether the sheep were used for feed or other animal-derived products.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement May 4, 2004
Media Inquiries: 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
Statement on Texas Cow With Central Nervous
System Symptoms On Friday, April 30 th , the Food and Drug Administration
learned that a cow with central nervous system symptoms had been killed and
shipped to a processor for rendering into animal protein for use in animal
feed.
FDA, which is responsible for the safety of
animal feed, immediately began an investigation. On Friday and throughout the
weekend, FDA investigators inspected the slaughterhouse, the rendering facility,
the farm where the animal came from, and the processor that initially received
the cow from the slaughterhouse.
FDA's investigation showed that the animal in
question had already been rendered into "meat and bone meal" (a type of protein
animal feed). Over the weekend FDA was able to track down all the implicated
material. That material is being held by the firm, which is cooperating fully
with FDA.
Cattle with central nervous system symptoms
are of particular interest because cattle with bovine spongiform encephalopathy
or BSE, also known as "mad cow disease," can exhibit such symptoms. In this
case, there is no way now to test for BSE. But even if the cow had BSE, FDA's
animal feed rule would prohibit the feeding of its rendered protein to other
ruminant animals (e.g., cows, goats, sheep, bison).
FDA is sending a letter to the firm
summarizing its findings and informing the firm that FDA will not object to use
of this material in swine feed only. If it is not used in swine feed, this
material will be destroyed. Pigs have been shown not to be susceptible to BSE.
If the firm agrees to use the material for swine feed only, FDA will track the
material all the way through the supply chain from the processor to the farm to
ensure that the feed is properly monitored and used only as feed for pigs.
To protect the U.S. against BSE, FDA works to
keep certain mammalian protein out of animal feed for cattle and other ruminant
animals. FDA established its animal feed rule in 1997 after the BSE epidemic in
the U.K. showed that the disease spreads by feeding infected ruminant protein to
cattle.
Under the current regulation, the material
from this Texas cow is not allowed in feed for cattle or other ruminant animals.
FDA's action specifying that the material go only into swine feed means also
that it will not be fed to poultry.
FDA is committed to protecting the U.S. from
BSE and collaborates closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on all BSE
issues. The animal feed rule provides crucial protection against the spread of
BSE, but it is only one of several such firewalls. FDA will soon be improving
the animal feed rule, to make this strong system even stronger.
####
2013
ruminant feed in the USA History, WHAT FEED
BAN ???
Friday, April 19, 2013
FDA BSE TSE PRION NEWS FEED AND ANNUAL
INSPECTION OF FEED MILLS REPORTS HAS CEASED TO EXIST
ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR AUGUST 2, 2006
please note, considering .005 grams is lethal, I do not know how much of
this 125 TONS of banned mad cow protein was part of the ;
e) "Big Jim's" BBB Deer Ration, Big Buck Blend, Recall # V-104-6;
bbbut, this was about 10 years post mad cow feed ban from 1997. 10 years
later, and still feeding banned mad cow protein to cervids???
considering that .005 gram is lethal to several bovines, and we know that
the oral consumption of CWD tainted products is very efficient mode of
transmission of CWD.
Subject: MAD COW FEED RECALL AL AND FL VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE 125
TONS Products manufactured from 02/01/2005 until 06/06/2006
Date: August 6, 2006 at 6:16 pm PST
PRODUCT
a) CO-OP 32% Sinking Catfish, Recall # V-100-6;
b) Performance Sheep Pell W/Decox/A/N, medicated, net wt. 50 lbs, Recall #
V-101-6;
c) Pro 40% Swine Conc Meal -- 50 lb, Recall # V-102-6;
d) CO-OP 32% Sinking Catfish Food Medicated, Recall # V-103-6;
***e) "Big Jim's" BBB Deer Ration, Big Buck Blend, Recall # V-104-6;
f) CO-OP 40% Hog Supplement Medicated Pelleted, Tylosin 100 grams/ton, 50
lb. bag, Recall # V-105-6;
g) Pig Starter Pell II, 18% W/MCDX Medicated 282020, Carbadox -- 0.0055%,
Recall # V-106-6;
h) CO-OP STARTER-GROWER CRUMBLES, Complete Feed for Chickens from Hatch to
20 Weeks, Medicated, Bacitracin Methylene Disalicylate, 25 and 50 Lbs, Recall #
V-107-6;
i) CO-OP LAYING PELLETS, Complete Feed for Laying Chickens, Recall # 108-6;
j) CO-OP LAYING CRUMBLES, Recall # V-109-6;
k) CO-OP QUAIL FLIGHT CONDITIONER MEDICATED, net wt 50 Lbs, Recall #
V-110-6;
l) CO-OP QUAIL STARTER MEDICATED, Net Wt. 50 Lbs, Recall # V-111-6;
m) CO-OP QUAIL GROWER MEDICATED, 50 Lbs, Recall # V-112-6
CODE
Product manufactured from 02/01/2005 until 06/06/2006
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Alabama Farmers Cooperative, Inc., Decatur, AL, by telephone, fax, email
and visit on June 9, 2006. FDA initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Animal and fish feeds which were possibly contaminated with ruminant based
protein not labeled as "Do not feed to ruminants".
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
125 tons
DISTRIBUTION
AL and FL
END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR AUGUST 2, 2006
###
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: the effect of oral exposure dose on
attack rate and incubation period in cattle -- an update 5 December 2012
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
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
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: DOCKET-- 03D-0186 -- FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Use of Material
From Deer and Elk in Animal Feed; Availability
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:47:37 –0500
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Greetings FDA,
i would kindly like to comment on; Docket 03D-0186FDA Issues Draft Guidance
on Use of Material From Deer and Elk in Animal Feed; Availability Several
factors on this apparent voluntary proposal disturbs me greatly, please allow me
to point them out;
snip...
Oral transmission and early lymphoid tropism of chronic wasting
diseasePrPres in mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus ) These results indicate
that CWD PrP res can be detected in lymphoid tissues draining the alimentary
tract within a few weeks after oral exposure to infectious prions and may
reflect the initial pathway of CWD infection in deer. The rapid infection of
deer fawns following exposure by the most plausible natural route is consistent
with the efficient horizontal transmission of CWD in nature and enables
accelerated studies of transmission and pathogenesis in the native
species.
snip...
now, just what is in that mad deer feed? _ANIMAL PROTEIN_
Subject: MAD DEER/ELK DISEASE AND POTENTIAL SOURCES
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:41:46 -0700 From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Reply-To: BSE-LTo: BSE-L
8420-20.5% Antler DeveloperFor Deer and Game in the wildGuaranteed Analysis
Ingredients / Products Feeding Directions
snip...
_animal protein_
snip...
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESPUBLIC HEALTH SERVICEFOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATIONApril 9, 2001 WARNING LETTER01-PHI-12CERTIFIED MAILRETURN RECEIPT
REQUESTED
Brian J. Raymond, Owner Sandy Lake Mills 26 Mill Street P.O. Box 117 Sandy
Lake, PA 16145
PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT
Tel: 215-597-4390
Dear Mr. Raymond:Food and Drug Administration Investigator Gregory E.
Beichner conducted an inspection of your animal feed manufacturing operation,
located in Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, on March 23,2001, and determined that your
firm manufactures animal feeds including feeds containing prohibited materials.
The inspection found significant deviations from the requirements set forth in
Title 21, code of Federal Regulations, part 589.2000 - Animal Proteins
Prohibited in Ruminant Feed. The regulation is intended to prevent the
establishment and amplification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) . Such
deviations cause products being manufactured at this facility to be misbranded
within the meaning of Section 403(f), of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act (the Act).Our investigation found failure to label your swine feed with the
required cautionary statement "Do Not Feed to cattleor other Ruminants" The FDA
suggests that the statement be distinguished by different type-size or color or
other means of highlighting the statement so that it is easily noticed by a
purchaser.
In addition, we note that you are using approximately 140 pounds of cracked
corn to flush your mixer used in the manufacture of animal feeds containing
prohibited material. This flushed material is fed to wild game including deer, a
ruminant animal.Feed material which may potentially contain prohibited material
should not be fed to ruminant animals which may become part of the food
chain.The above is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of deviations
fromthe regulations. As a manufacturer of materials intended for animalfeed use,
you are responsible for assuring that your overall operation and the products
you manufacture and distribute are in compliance withthe law. We have enclosed a
copy of FDA's Small Entity Compliance Guideto assist you with complying with the
regulation...
snip...end...full text ;
2003D-0186 Guidance for Industry: Use of Material From Deer and Elk In
Animal Feed
EMC 1 Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Vol #: 1
see my full text submission here ;
Draft Guidance on Use of Material From Deer and Elk in Animal Feed; CVM
Updates on Deer and Elk Withdrawn FDA Veterinarian Newsletter July/August 2003
Volume XVIII, No 4
FDA has announced the availability of a draft guidance for industry
entitled “Use of Material from Deer and Elk in Animal Feed.” This draft guidance
document (GFI #158), when finalized, will describe FDA’s current thinking
regarding the use in animal feed of material from deer and elk that are positive
for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or that are at high risk for CWD.
CWD is a neurological (brain) disease of farmed and wild deer and elk that
belong in the cervidae animal family (cervids). Only deer and elk are known to
be susceptible to CWD by natural transmission. The disease has been found in
farmed and wild mule deer, white-tailed deer, North American elk, and farmed
black-tailed deer. CWD belongs to a family of animal and human diseases called
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). TSEs are very rare, but are
always fatal.
This draft Level 1 guidance, when finalized, will represent the Agency’s
current thinking on the topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on
any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternate method
may be used as long as it satisfies the requirements of applicable statutes and
regulations.
Draft guidance #158 is posted on the FDA/Center for Veterinary Medicine
Home Page. Single copies of the draft guidance may be obtained from the FDA
Veterinarian.
- - Page Last Updated: 04/16/2013
CONTAINS NON-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS
158
Guidance for Industry
Use of Material from Deer and Elk in Animal Feed
Comments and suggestions regarding the document should be submitted to
Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630
Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Submit electronic comments to http://www.regulations.gov. All
comments should be identified with the Docket No. 03D-0186.
For questions regarding this guidance, contact Burt Pritchett, Center for
Veterinary Medicine (HFV- 222), Food and Drug Administration, 7519 Standish
Place, Rockville, MD 20855, 240-453-6860, E-mail: burt.pritchett@fda.hhs.gov.
Additional copies of this guidance document may be requested from the
Communications Staff (HFV-12), Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug
Administration, 7519 Standish Place, Rockville, MD 20855, and may be viewed on
the Internet at http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/GuidanceforIndustry/default.htm.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine September 15,
2003
CONTAINS NON-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS
158
Guidance for Industry1
Use of Material from Deer and Elk in Animal Feed
This guidance represents the Food and Drug Administration’s current
thinking on the use of material from deer and elk in animal feed. It does not
create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind
FDA or the public. You can use an alternative approach if the approach satisfies
the requirements of applicable statutes or regulations. If you want to discuss
an alternative approach, contact the FDA staff responsible for implementing this
guidance. If you cannot identify the appropriate FDA staff, call the appropriate
number listed on the title page of this guidance.
I. Introduction
FDA’s guidance documents, including this guidance, do not establish legally
enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe the Agency’s current
thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations, unless
specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited. The use of the word
“should” in Agency guidances means that something is suggested or recommended,
but not required.
Under FDA’s BSE feed regulation (21 CFR 589.2000) most material from deer
and elk is prohibited for use in feed for ruminant animals. This guidance
document describes FDA’s recommendations regarding the use in all animal feed of
all material from deer and elk that are positive for Chronic Wasting Disease
(CWD) or are considered at high risk for CWD. The potential risks from CWD to
humans or non-cervid animals such as poultry and swine are not well understood.
However, because of recent recognition that CWD is spreading rapidly in
white-tailed deer, and because CWD’s route of transmission is poorly understood,
FDA is making recommendations regarding the use in animal feed of rendered
materials from deer and elk that are CWD-positive or that are at high risk for
CWD.
II. Background
CWD is a neurological (brain) disease of farmed and wild deer and elk that
belong in the animal family cervidae (cervids). Only deer and elk are known to
be susceptible to CWD by natural transmission. The disease has been found in
farmed and wild mule deer,
1 This guidance has been prepared by the Division of Animal Feeds in the
Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at the Food and Drug Administration.
1
CONTAINS NON-BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS
2
white-tailed deer, North American elk, and in farmed black-tailed deer. CWD
belongs to a family of animal and human diseases called transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs). These include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or
“mad cow” disease) in cattle; scrapie in sheep and goats; and classical and
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases (CJD and vCJD) in humans. There is no known
treatment for these diseases, and there is no vaccine to prevent them. In
addition, although validated postmortem diagnostic tests are available, there
are no validated diagnostic tests for CWD that can be used to test for the
disease in live animals.
III.
Use in animal feed of material from CWD-positive deer and elk
Material from CWD-positive animals may not be used in any animal feed or
feed ingredients. Pursuant to Sec. 402(a)(5) of the Federal Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act, animal feed and feed ingredients containing material from a
CWD-positive animal would be considered adulterated. FDA recommends that any
such adulterated feed or feed ingredients be recalled or otherwise removed from
the marketplace.
IV.
Use in animal feed of material from deer and elk considered at high risk
for CWD
Deer and elk considered at high risk for CWD include: (1) animals from
areas declared by State officials to be endemic for CWD and/or to be CWD
eradication zones; and (2) deer and elk that at some time during the 60-month
period immediately before the time of slaughter were in a captive herd that
contained a CWD-positive animal.
FDA recommends that materials from deer and elk considered at high risk for
CWD no longer be entered into the animal feed system. Under present
circumstances, FDA is not recommending that feed made from deer and elk from a
non-endemic area be recalled if a State later declares the area endemic for CWD
or a CWD eradication zone. In addition, at this time, FDA is not recommending
that feed made from deer and elk believed to be from a captive herd that
contained no CWD-positive animals be recalled if that herd is subsequently found
to contain a CWD-positive animal. V. Use in animal feed of material from deer
and elk NOT considered at high risk for CWD
FDA continues to consider materials from deer and elk NOT considered at
high risk for CWD to be acceptable for use in NON-RUMINANT animal feeds in
accordance with current agency regulations, 21 CFR 589.2000. Deer and elk not
considered at high risk include: (1) deer and elk from areas not declared by
State officials to be endemic for CWD and/or to be CWD eradication zones; and
(2) deer and elk that were not at some time during the 60-month period
immediately before the time of slaughter in a captive herd that contained a
CWD-positive animal.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Department of Justice Former Suppliers of Beef to National School Lunch
Program Settle Allegations of Improper Practices and Mistreating Cows
that voluntary mad cow feed ban that became law, how did that work out for
us $
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL (SRM) CONTROL VERIFICATION TASK FSIS NOTICE 70-13
10/30/13
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
Friday, October 25, 2013
UK FSA TSE BSE Board meeting agenda: 5 November 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
FSA MORE BSE MAD COW CONTROL BREACHES JUNE 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations BSE TSE
PRION 2013
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:16 AM
Subject: RE: Wasting disease is threat to the entire UK deer
population
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snip... my full submission here
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Wasting disease is threat to the entire UK deer
population (Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE prion disease aka Mad Deer
Disease)
PRION2013 CONGRESSIONAL
ABSTRACTS CWD
Sunday, August 25, 2013
***Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
risk factors, ***humans***, domestic cats, blood, and mother to offspring
transmission
Sunday, July 21, 2013
*** As Chronic Wasting Disease
CWD rises in deer herd, what about risk for humans?
Thursday, December 05, 2013
National Scrapie Eradication Program October 2013 Monthly Report Fiscal
Year 2014 TSE PRION REPORT
mad dogs and englishman
***2005***
DEFRA Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Area 307, London, SW1P 4PQ Telephone: 0207 904 6000 Direct line: 0207 904
6287 E-mail: h.mcdonagh.defra.gsi.gov.uk
GTN: FAX:
Mr T S Singeltary P.O. Box 42 Bacliff Texas USA 77518
21 November 2001
Dear Mr Singeltary
TSE IN HOUNDS
Thank you for e-mail regarding the hounds survey. I am sorry for the long
delay in responding.
As you note, the hound survey remains unpublished. However the Spongiform
Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), the UK Government's independent
Advisory Committee on all aspects related to BSE-like disease, gave the hound
study detailed consideration at their meeting in January 1994. As a summary of
this meeting published in the BSE inquiry noted, the Committee were clearly
concerned about the work that had been carried out, concluding that there had
clearly been problems with it, particularly the control on the histology, and
that it was more or less inconclusive. However was agreed that there should be a
re-evaluation of the pathological material in the study.
Later, at their meeting in June 95, The Committee re-evaluated the hound
study to see if any useful results could be gained from it. The Chairman
concluded that there were varying opinions within the Committee on further work.
It did not suggest any further transmission studies and thought that the lack of
clinical data was a major weakness.
Overall, it is clear that SEAC had major concerns about the survey as
conducted. As a result it is likely that the authors felt that it would not
stand up to r~eer review and hence it was never published. As noted above, and
in the detailed minutes of the SEAC meeting in June 95, SEAC considered whether
additional work should be performed to examine dogs for evidence of TSE
infection. Although the Committee had mixed views about the merits of conducting
further work, the Chairman noted that when the Southwood Committee made their
recommendation to complete an assessment of possible spongiform disease in dogs,
no TSEs had been identified in other species and hence dogs were perceived as a
high risk population and worthy of study. However subsequent to the original
recommendation, made in 1990, a number of other species had been identified with
TSE ( e.g. cats) so a study in hounds was less
critical. For more details see- http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/06/21005001.pdf
As this study remains unpublished, my understanding is that the ownership
of the data essentially remains with the original researchers. Thus
unfortunately, I am unable to help with your request to supply information on
the hound survey directly. My only suggestion is that you contact one of the
researchers originally involved in the project, such as Gerald Wells. He can be
contacted at the following address.
Dr Gerald Wells, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Addlestone,
Surrey, KT 15 3NB, UK
You may also wish to be aware that since November 1994 all suspected cases
of spongiform encephalopathy in animals and poultry were made notifiable. Hence
since that date there has been a requirement for vets to report any suspect SE
in dogs for further investigation. To date there has never been positive
identification of a TSE in a dog.
I hope this is helpful
Yours sincerely 4
HUGH MCDONAGH BSE CORRESPONDENCE SECTION
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HOUND SURVEY
I am sorry, but I really could have been a co-signatory of Gerald's
minute.
I do NOT think that we can justify devoting any resources to this study,
especially as larger and more important projects such as the pathogenesis study
will be quite demanding.
If there is a POLITICAL need to continue with the examination of hound
brains then it should be passed entirely to the VI Service.
J W WILESMITH Epidemiology Unit 18 October 1991
Mr. R Bradley
cc: Mr. G A H Wells
3.3. Mr R J Higgins in conjunction with Mr G A Wells and Mr A C Scott would
by the end of the year, indentify the three brains that were from the
''POSITIVE'' end of the lesion spectrum.
Monday, March 26, 2012
CANINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: A NEW FORM OF ANIMAL PRION DISEASE
http://caninespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/03/canine-spongiform-encephalopathy-new.html
Friday, March 8, 2013
Dogs may have been used to make Petfood and animal feed
SEE FULL TEXT ;
Web
posted Wednesday, February 18, 1998 2:02 p.m. CT
Graphic pictures greet Winfrey jury
By
KAY LEDBETTER Globe-News Farm and Ranch Editor
Pictures of sheep heads, euthanized pets and roadkill greeted
jurors this morning as they returned to the continuation of the cattlemen vs.
Oprah Winfrey lawsuit.
The
lawsuit continues today in U.S. District Mary Lou Robinson's court, but in a
much diminished state.
snip...
Defense lawyer Charles Babcock called Van Smith, a City Paper
reporter from Baltimore who had written an article on rendering plants in
September 1995.
Smith and Babcock went through more than 50 pictures taken as the
reporter toured the Valley Proteins plant in Baltimore and followed a rendering
truck to the local animal shelter, a sausage plant and a
slaughterhouse.
The
pictures showed offal being emptied from the slaughterhouses. They showed animal
shelter workers in the euthanasia room; barrels of dead animals in a
refrigerated room at the animal shelter; waste meat from the sausage plant; and
dead sheep from the slaughterhouse.
PET FOODS MAD CATS AND MAD DOGS BSE/TSEs
worse still, there is serious risk the media could get to hear of such a
meeting...
snip...
Crushed heads (which inevitably involve brain and spinal cord material) are
used to a limited extent but will also form one of the constituent raw materials
of meat and bone meal, which is used extensively in pet food manufacturer...
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221050912/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/03/17004001.pdf
snip...see full text ;
*** 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
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
Monday, March 26, 2012
CANINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY: A NEW FORM OF ANIMAL PRION DISEASE
http://caninespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/03/canine-spongiform-encephalopathy-new.html
FELINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY FSE
Friday, March 8, 2013
Dogs may have been used to make Petfood and
animal feed
SNIP... PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT SUBMISSION HERE ; re-Human Prion Diseases in
the United States Posted by flounder on 01 Jan 2010 at 18:11 GMT I kindly
disagree with your synopsis for the following reasons ;
CJD QUESTIONNAIRE USA
Alzheimer's, _fast_ Alzhiemer's disease in the young ???
misdiagnosis there from, or some of the other neurodegenerative
neurological disorders, might they be a prion disease, and might they be
transmissible $?$?$
pat, YOU know when I go quoting scriptures from the Bible, things must not
be good...
Romans 12:19 ESV Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the
wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the
Lord.”
Friday, March 8, 2013
Dogs may have been used to make Petfood and animal feed
and repay the Lord might just do, OR ALREADY HAS DONE ;
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
*** Transmission of multiple system atrophy prions to transgenic mice
see the rest of this nightmare below the studies.......
lost my mom to hvCJD, and have been following the TSE prion disease. I
tried to tell them 10 years ago about this risk factors, there were studies back
then. I DO NOT advertise on my blogs. they are for educational use...
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
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
*** Detection of Infectivity in
Blood of Persons with Variant and Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
NORDION (US), INC., AND BIOAXONE BIOSCIENCES, INC., Settles $90M Mad Cow TSE prion Contamination Suit Cethrin(R)
Case 0:12-cv-60739-RNS Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/26/2012 Page 1 of 15
http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2013/09/nordion-us-inc-and-bioaxone-biosciences.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
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
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
Thursday, October 10, 2013
CJD REPORT 1994 increased risk
for consumption of veal and venison and lamb
Published March 26, 2003
RE-Monitoring the occurrence of
emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States
Terry S. Singeltary, retired
(medically)
I lost my mother to hvCJD
(Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to comment on the CDC's attempts to
monitor the occurrence of emerging forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have
reported 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. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable nationally. CJD
and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every state and internationally. I
hope that the CDC does not continue to expect us to still believe that the 85%+
of all CJD cases which are sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source.
We have many TSEs in the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is
spreading rapidly and CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel
monkey by intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other
TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every victim/family
of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this agent. To prolong
this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose others. In light of the
findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there should be drastic measures to
safeguard the medical and surgical arena from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs.
I only ponder how many sporadic CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?
Published March 26, 2003
Letters
JAMA. 2001;285(6):733-734. doi:
10.1001/jama.285.6.733
Diagnosis and Reporting of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Terry S. Singeltary, Sr Bacliff,
Tex
Since this article does not have
an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
KEYWORDS: creutzfeldt-jakob
disease, diagnosis. To the Editor: In their Research Letter, Dr Gibbons and
colleagues1 reported that the annual US death rate due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease (CJD) has been stable since 1985. These estimates, however, are based
only on reported cases, and do not include misdiagnosed or preclinical cases. It
seems to me that misdiagnosis alone would drastically change these figures. An
unknown number of persons with a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in fact may have
CJD, although only a small number of these patients receive the postmortem
examination necessary to make this diagnosis. Furthermore, only a few states
have made CJD reportable. Human and animal transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies should be reportable nationwide and internationally.
References 1. Gibbons RV, Holman
RC, Belay ED, Schonberger LB. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States:
1979-1998. JAMA. 2000;284:2322-2323.
just saying...
kindest regards,
terry
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
