BSE Surveillance Continues to Benefit Canadian Cattle Producers September 24, 2010 - Notice to Industry

Notice to Industry - BSE Surveillance Continues to Benefit Canadian Cattle Producers September 24, 2010: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reminds cattle producers to continue to present eligible animals for testing under the national bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance program.

The national BSE surveillance program is critical for maintaining domestic and international confidence in Canadian beef products. It continues to demonstrate the low level of BSE in Canada and our collective commitment to meeting international obligations. The program plays an important role in Canada's strategy to manage BSE and to assess the effectiveness of our control measures.

The CFIA is looking to test animals most at risk for the disease, which include

•cattle over the age of 30 months that are dead, down, dying or diseased •cattle exhibiting clinical signs of BSE Please contact the nearest CFIA office or a veterinarian to make arrangements for sampling. The CFIA provides financial support to offset the costs of veterinary examinations and carcass disposal (on-farm disposal or deadstock collection).

In Alberta, BSE surveillance is jointly managed by the Province of Alberta and the CFIA, and the program requirements are slightly different. For more information on the Canada-Alberta BSE Surveillance Program, including details on the eligibility criteria of the reimbursement program, contact the Province of Alberta.

Continued stewardship and vigilance from cattle producers is critical to the success of the BSE surveillance program, and ultimately to the control of the disease in Canada.

For more information on the national BSE surveillance program, call 1-800-442-2342 or visit www.inspection.gc.ca.

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/ind20100924e.shtml



Since Canada has taken over some of the USDA et al's bad habits of not reporting BSE cases, until the media finds out, I only hope they have not taken up the bad habit of only testing healthy cattle brains for the BSE surveillance, cattle brains they knew did not have BSE..............



Mad Cow Disease Case Hidden For Weeks By Canadian and U.S. Agencies

HuffPost Citizen Reporting Nikki Zeichner Posted: 03-11-10 07:08 PM

On February 25, 2010, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed a recent case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease, in a 72 month-old cow.

This case was detected through the national BSE surveillance program and was not made public on the CFIA website until March 10 -- hours after a press release was distributed by the advocacy group, Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (RCALF USA).

"The CFIA said the BSE-positive case was confirmed Feb. 25, 2010, which means the CFIA and all other governments who knew about this latest BSE case kept it a secret from the public for almost two weeks," said R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. "If we had not discovered this information, the public may never have known."

According to a CFIA spokesperson, the Agency updates its website with cases of federally reportable diseases found in farmed animals once a month. Immediate updates are made only when it determines that there are reportable, foreign, or newly emerging diseases which pose significant health or economic risks.

The USDA claims that its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) determined that the risk presented here in trade in beef or cattle from Canada is negligible.

According to USDA spokesperson, Caleb Weaver, "APHIS followed international standards, as defined by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), in making this determination."

Both the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the USDA admit that there is no way to test live animals for BSE; testing for BSE can only be done by postmortem microscopic examination of the animal's brain tissue. These tests are conducted on dead animals to detect the possibility of infection within a specific cattle population. BSE testing in Canada is voluntary and, according to Canadian Food Inspection Agency data, rates of BSE testing of cattle being exported to the U.S. are on the decline.

Recent USDA regulations permit live Canadian cattle born after March 1, 1999, to be imported into the United States without mandatory BSE testing. This means that the infected cow would have been eligible for import into the U.S. cattle market had it been alive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/mad-cow-disease-case-hidd_n_494881.html



U.S. Department of State

Cases Regarding the Border Closure due to BSE Concerns

Several Canadian claimants have submitted notices of arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules alleging that the United States has violated NAFTA Chapter Eleven by closing the border to the importation of Canadian cattle after the discovery in 2003 of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) in a cow in Alberta, Canada. Claimants are Canadian citizens and corporations that own and operate cattle feeding, feedlot and transportation businesses in Canada, which they allege were damaged by the border closure.

Claimants allege that the border closure violates NAFTA Article 1102 (national treatment). The notices of arbitration seek damages of varying amounts, ranging from CAN$38,000 to CAN$95 million. The total amount of damages sought by claimants is approximately US$235 million.

On January 28, 2008, the tribunal issued its Award on Jurisdiction, dismissing the claims against the United States in their entirety. The tribunal’s award, and other documents in the case, appear below.

-01/28/08 Award on Jurisdiction [575 Kb] -10/10/07 Transcript of the Hearing on the Preliminary Issue - Day Two [166 Kb] -10/09/07 Transcript of the Hearing on the Preliminary Issue - Day One [260 Kb] -08/03/07 Procedural Order No. 3 [26 Kb] -07/05/07 Claimants' Rejoinder on the Preliminary Issue [849 Kb] -05/01/07 U.S. Reply on the Preliminary Issue [245 Kb] -03/01/07 Article 1128 Submission of Mexico [47 Kb] -01/30/07 Claimants' Response on the Preliminary Question [2303 Kb] -12/01/06 U.S. Memorial on the Preliminary Issue [167 Kb] -11/07/06 Procedural Order No. 2 [62 Kb] -10/20/06 Procedural Order No. 1 [122 Kb] -06/02/05 Jim McNall Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -06/02/05 Leslie Smith Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -06/02/05 Michael Sears Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -06/02/05 Rex Vandenberg Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -06/02/05 Richard Hiebert Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -06/02/05 Rod Oosterbroek Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -06/02/05 TER Cattle Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/20/05 Andrew Oosterbroek Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Brad Hopkins Notice of Arbitration [396 Kb] -05/20/05 Brent Byers Notice of Arbitration [395 Kb] -05/20/05 Brent Fisher Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/20/05 Byron Sedore Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Chris Irwin Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Cornelius Van Hal Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Darren Johnston Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Dave Knapp Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 David Hewitt Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Donald Procter Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 George Adams Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Glen Thompson Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Graham Alexander Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Helmut Friesen Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/20/05 James Wiskerke Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Joseph Daunt Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Keith Kerr Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Ken Andreychuk Notice of Arbitration [396 Kb] -05/20/05 Kevin Freiburger Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Larry Brodersen Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/20/05 Lee Robson Notice of Arbitraiton [450 Kb] -05/20/05 Maria Vanden Elzen Notice of Arbitration [413 Kb] -05/20/05 Murray Johnston Notice of Arbitration [395 Kb] -05/20/05 NFL Holdings Notice of Arbitration [456 Kb] -05/20/05 Paul Gowing Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Paul MacIntyre Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Peter Schwenk Notice of Arbitration [448 Kb] -05/20/05 Peter Vander Heyden Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -05/20/05 Robert Emerson Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Robert Laidlaw Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/20/05 Ron Coulter Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/20/05 Ross McCall Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/20/05 Ryan Kasko Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Barry Hillman Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Ben Gardiner Notice of Arbitration [416 Kb] -05/11/05 Bernie Loman Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Blair Bieman Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Blake Holtman Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Bruce Groenenboom Notice of Arbitration [403 Kb] -05/11/05 Butch Martin Notice of Arbitration [441 Kb] -05/11/05 Dale Pallister Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Darwin Ullery Notice of Arbitration [412 Kb] -05/11/05 Dave Gardiner Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -05/11/05 Dave Johnston Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -05/11/05 Dave Matthies, Notice of Arbitration [421 Kb] -05/11/05 David Millsap Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Doug Briggs Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Doug Nieboer Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Doug Shelswel Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Ed Stronks Notice of Arbitration [413 Kb] -05/11/05 Eric Thacker Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Eve t Kraayenbrink Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -05/11/05 Firmin Declercq Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Frank Zettler Notice of Arbitration [395 Kb] -05/11/05 G. Lee Hochstein Notice of Arbitration [374 Kb] -05/11/05 George Alton Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 George Maxwell Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Glen Armitage Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Grant Nelson Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Harry Duban Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Harry Vandersteen Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Harry Welsch Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Henry Van Hall Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Herb Groenenboom Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Herbert Serfas Notice of Arbitration [403 Kb] -05/11/05 Herman Stroeve Notice of Arbitration [449 Kb] -05/11/05 Ian MacLean Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Jim Steed Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Joe Stroeve Notice of Arbitration [423 Kb] -05/11/05 John Schooten Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 John Stroeve Notice of Arbitration [423 Kb] -05/11/05 John Vander Heyden Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Julie Coe Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Keith Scott Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Larry Lehrbass Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Leighton Kolk Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Lloyd Sproule Notice of Arbitration [391 Kb] -05/11/05 Louis Ypma Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Marty Wren Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Mary Conlin Notice of Arbitration [395 Kb] -05/11/05 Murray Brodhagen Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Nick Popovic Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Paul Adams Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Renus Van Hal Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Richard Visser Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Rients Wever Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Robert Cooke Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -05/11/05 Robert Vander Heyden Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Ryan Gibson Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -05/11/05 Steve McKague Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Stuart Alton Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Ward Takeda Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -05/11/05 Wayne Beattie Notice of Arbitration [394 Kb] -05/11/05 Wilfred Haines Notice of Arbitration [415 Kb] -03/16/05 Cor Van Raay Notice of Arbitration [396 Kb] -03/16/05 Joe Groenenboom Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb] -03/16/05 John Vander Heyden Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -03/16/05 Larry Nolan Notice of Arbitration [393 Kb] -03/16/05 Theodorus de Boer Notice of Arbitration [392 Kb]

http://www.state.gov/s/l/c14683.htm



P.9.21

Molecular characterization of BSE in Canada

Jianmin Yang1, Sandor Dudas2, Catherine Graham2, Markus Czub3, Tim McAllister1, Stefanie Czub1 1Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Canada; 2National and OIE BSE Reference Laboratory, Canada; 3University of Calgary, Canada

Background: Three BSE types (classical and two atypical) have been identified on the basis of molecular characteristics of the misfolded protein associated with the disease. To date, each of these three types have been detected in Canadian cattle.

Objectives: This study was conducted to further characterize the 16 Canadian BSE cases based on the biochemical properties of there associated PrPres. Methods: Immuno-reactivity, molecular weight, glycoform profiles and relative proteinase K sensitivity of the PrPres from each of the 16 confirmed Canadian BSE cases was determined using modified Western blot analysis.

Results: Fourteen of the 16 Canadian BSE cases were C type, 1 was H type and 1 was L type. The Canadian H and L-type BSE cases exhibited size shifts and changes in glycosylation similar to other atypical BSE cases. PK digestion under mild and stringent conditions revealed a reduced protease resistance of the atypical cases compared to the C-type cases. N terminal- specific antibodies bound to PrPres from H type but not from C or L type. The C-terminal-specific antibodies resulted in a shift in the glycoform profile and detected a fourth band in the Canadian H-type BSE.

Discussion: The C, L and H type BSE cases in Canada exhibit molecular characteristics similar to those described for classical and atypical BSE cases from Europe and Japan. This supports the theory that the importation of BSE contaminated feedstuff is the source of C-type BSE in Canada. It also suggests a similar cause or source for atypical BSE in these countries.

http://www.prion2009.com/sites/default/files/Prion2009_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf



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



Monday, August 30, 2010

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) CANADA Import Policy for Bovine Animals and Their Products (TAHD-DSAT-IE-2005-9-2) Import Policy updates August

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/08/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-bse.html



Thursday, August 19, 2010

SCRAPIE CANADA UPDATE Current as of 2010-07-31 The following table lists sheep flocks and/or goat herds confirmed to be infected with scrapie in Canada in 2010.

Current as of: 2010-07-31

http://nor-98.blogspot.com/2010/08/scrapie-canada-update-current-as-of.html



Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Incidence of CJD Deaths Reported by CJD-SS in Canada as of July 31, 2010

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2010/08/incidence-of-cjd-deaths-reported-by-cjd.html



Monday, August 9, 2010

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Cases Examined (July 31, 2010)

(please watch and listen to the video and the scientist speaking about atypical BSE and sporadic CJD and listen to Professor Aguzzi)

http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/2010/08/national-prion-disease-pathology.html



Subject: USDA OIG SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FY 2007 1st Half (bogus BSE sampling FROM HEALTHY USDA CATTLE) Date: June 21, 2007 at 2:49 pm PST

Owner and Corporation Plead Guilty to Defrauding Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program

An Arizona meat processing company and its owner pled guilty in February 2007 to charges of theft of Government funds, mail fraud, and wire fraud. The owner and his company defrauded the BSE Surveillance Program when they falsified BSE Surveillance Data Collection Forms and then submitted payment requests to USDA for the services. In addition to the targeted sample population (those cattle that were more than 30 months old or had other risk factors for BSE), the owner submitted to USDA, or caused to be submitted, BSE obex (brain stem) samples from healthy USDA-inspected cattle. As a result, the owner fraudulently received approximately $390,000. Sentencing is scheduled for May 2007.

snip...

Topics that will be covered in ongoing or planned reviews under Goal 1 include:

soundness of BSE maintenance sampling (APHIS),

implementation of Performance-Based Inspection System enhancements for specified risk material (SRM) violations and improved inspection controls over SRMs (FSIS and APHIS),

snip...

The findings and recommendations from these efforts will be covered in future semiannual reports as the relevant audits and investigations are completed.

4 USDA OIG SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FY 2007 1st Half

http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/sarc070619.pdf



THE USDA JUNE 2004 ENHANCED BSE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM WAS TERRIBLY FLAWED ;

CDC DR. PAUL BROWN TSE EXPERT COMMENTS 2006

In an article today for United Press International, science reporter Steve Mitchell writes:

Analysis: What that mad cow means

By STEVE MITCHELL UPI Senior Medical Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture was quick to assure the public earlier this week that the third case of mad cow disease did not pose a risk to them, but what federal officials have not acknowledged is that this latest case indicates the deadly disease has been circulating in U.S. herds for at least a decade.

The second case, which was detected last year in a Texas cow and which USDA officials were reluctant to verify, was approximately 12 years old.

These two cases (the latest was detected in an Alabama cow) present a picture of the disease having been here for 10 years or so, since it is thought that cows usually contract the disease from contaminated feed they consume as calves. The concern is that humans can contract a fatal, incurable, brain-wasting illness from consuming beef products contaminated with the mad cow pathogen.

"The fact the Texas cow showed up fairly clearly implied the existence of other undetected cases," Dr. Paul Brown, former medical director of the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory for Central Nervous System Studies and an expert on mad cow-like diseases, told United Press International. "The question was, 'How many?' and we still can't answer that."

Brown, who is preparing a scientific paper based on the latest two mad cow cases to estimate the maximum number of infected cows that occurred in the United States, said he has "absolutely no confidence in USDA tests before one year ago" because of the agency's reluctance to retest the Texas cow that initially tested positive.

USDA officials finally retested the cow and confirmed it was infected seven months later, but only at the insistence of the agency's inspector general.

"Everything they did on the Texas cow makes everything they did before 2005 suspect," Brown said.

Despite this, Brown said the U.S. prevalence of mad cow, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, did not significantly threaten human or cattle health.

"Overall, my view is BSE is highly unlikely to pose any important risk either in cattle feed or human feed," he said.

However, Jean Halloran of Consumers Union in Yonkers, N.Y., said consumers should be troubled by the USDA's secrecy and its apparent plan to dramatically cut back the number of mad cow tests it conducts.

"Consumers should be very concerned about how little we know about the USDA's surveillance program and the failure of the USDA to reveal really important details," Halloran told UPI. "Consumers have to be really concerned if they're going to cut back the program," she added.

Last year the USDA tested more than 300,000 animals for the disease, but it has proposed, even in light of a third case, scaling back the program to 40,000 tests annually.

"They seem to be, in terms of actions and policies, taking a lot more seriously the concerns of the cattle industry than the concerns of consumers," Halloran said. "It's really hard to know what it takes to get this administration to take action to protect the public."

The USDA has insisted that the safeguards of a ban on incorporating cow tissue into cattle feed (which is thought to spread the disease) and removal of the most infectious parts of cows, such as the brain and spinal cord, protect consumers. But the agency glosses over the fact that both of these systems have been revealed to be inadequately implemented.

The feed ban, which is enforced by the Food and Drug Administration, has been criticized by the Government Accountability Office in two reports, the most recent coming just last year. The GAO said the FDA's enforcement of the ban continues to have weaknesses that "undermine the nation's firewall against BSE."

USDA documents released last year showed more than 1,000 violations of the regulations requiring the removal of brains and spinal cords in at least 35 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with some plants being cited repeatedly for infractions. In addition, a violation of similar regulations that apply to beef exported to Japan is the reason why Japan closed its borders to U.S. beef in January six weeks after reopening them.

Other experts also question the adequacy of the USDA's surveillance system. The USDA insists the prevalence of mad cow disease is low, but the agency has provided few details of its surveillance program, making it difficult for outside experts to know if the agency's monitoring plan is sufficient.

"It's impossible to judge the adequacy of the surveillance system without having a breakdown of the tested population by age and risk status," Elizabeth Mumford, a veterinarian and BSE expert at Safe Food Solutions in Bern, Switzerland, a company that provides advice on reducing mad cow risk to industry and governments, told UPI.

"Everybody would be happier and more confident and in a sense it might be able to go away a little bit for (the USDA) if they would just publish a breakdown on the tests," Mumford added.

UPI requested detailed records about animals tested under the USDA's surveillance plan via the Freedom of Information Act in May 2004 but nearly two years later has not received any corresponding documents from the agency, despite a federal law requiring agencies to comply within 30 days. This leaves open the question of whether the USDA is withholding the information, does not have the information or is so haphazardly organized that it cannot locate it.

Mumford said the prevalence of the disease in U.S. herds is probably quite low, but there have probably been other cases that have so far gone undetected. "They're only finding a very small fraction of that low prevalence," she said.

Mumford expressed surprise at the lack of concern about the deadly disease from American consumers. "I would expect the U.S. public to be more concerned," she said.

Markus Moser, a molecular biologist and chief executive officer of Prionics, a Swiss firm that manufactures BSE test kits, told UPI one concern is that if people are infected, the mad cow pathogen could become "humanized" or more easily transmitted from person to person.

"Transmission would be much easier, through all kinds of medical procedures" and even through the blood supply, Moser said.

© Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved

http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060315-055557-1284r


http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2003/12/30/Mad-Cow-Linked-to-thousands-of-CJD-cases/UPI-47861072816318/


CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt ... Dr. Paul Brown is Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Central Nervous System ... Address for correspondence: Paul Brown, Building 36, Room 4A-05, ...

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm



PAUL BROWN COMMENT TO ME ON THIS ISSUE

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:10 AM

"Actually, Terry, I have been critical of the USDA handling of the mad cow issue for some years, and with Linda Detwiler and others sent lengthy detailed critiques and recommendations to both the USDA and the Canadian Food Agency." ........TSS


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2009/07/mad-cow-cover-up-usa-masked-as-sporadic.html



OR, what the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG found ;

Audit Report Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program ­ Phase II and Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf



THIS is just ONE month report, of TWO recalls of prohibited banned MBM, which is illegal, mixed with 85% blood meal, which is still legal, but yet we know the TSE/BSE agent will transmit blood. we have this l-BSE in North America that is much more virulent and there is much concern with blood issue and l-BSE as there is with nvCJD in humans. some are even starting to be concerned with sporadic CJD and blood, and there are studies showing transmission there as well. ... this is one month recall page, where 10 MILLION POUNDS OF BANNED MAD COW FEED WENT OUT INTO COMMERCE, TO BE FED OUT. very little of the product that reaches commerce is ever returned via recall, very, very little. this was 2007, TEN YEARS AFTER THE AUGUST 4, 1997, PARTIAL AND VOLUNTARY MAD COW FEED BAN IN THE USA, that was nothing but ink on paper. i have listed the tonnage of mad cow feed that was in ALABAMA in one of the links too, this is where the infamous g-h-BSEalabama case was, a genetic relation matching the new sporadic CJD in the USA. seems this saga just keeps getting better and better.......$$$



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

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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


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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

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/EnforcementReports/2007/ucm120446.htm



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Docket APHIS-2010-0056 National Veterinary Services Laboratories; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Surveillance Program Documents COMMENT SUBMISSION

Docket No. APHIS-2010-0056

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2010/09/docket-aphis-2010-0056-national.html


Docket No. 03-080-1 -- USDA ISSUES PROPOSED RULE TO ALLOW LIVE ANIMAL IMPORTS FROM CANADA

https://web01.aphis.usda.gov/BSEcom.nsf/0/b78ba677e2b0c12185256dd300649f9d?OpenDocument&AutoFramed


PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT HERE ;

Docket No. 03-080-1 -- USDA ISSUES PROPOSED RULE TO ALLOW LIVE ANIMAL IMPORTS FROM CANADA

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2008/07/docket-no-03-080-1-usda-issues-proposed.html


Docket APHIS-2006-0026 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Animal Identification and Importation of Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0026-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions, Identification of Ruminants and Processing and Importation of Commodities Public Submission APHIS-2006-0026-0012 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801e47e1


Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028 Public Submission Title Comment from Terry S Singletary

Comment 2006-2007 USA AND OIE POISONING GLOBE WITH BSE MRR POLICY

THE USA is in a most unique situation, one of unknown circumstances with human and animal TSE. THE USA has the most documented TSE in different species to date, with substrains growing in those species (BSE/BASE in cattle and CWD in deer and elk, there is evidence here with different strains), and we know that sheep scrapie has over 20 strains of the typical scrapie with atypical scrapie documented and also BSE is very likely to have passed to sheep. all of which have been rendered and fed back to animals for human and animal consumption, a frightening scenario. WE do not know the outcome, and to play with human life around the globe with the very likely TSE tainted products from the USA, in my opinion is like playing Russian roulette, of long duration, with potential long and enduring consequences, of which once done, cannot be undone. These are the facts as I have come to know through daily and extensive research of TSE over 9 years, since 12/14/97. I do not pretend to have all the answers, but i do know to continue to believe in the ukbsenvcjd only theory of transmission to humans of only this one strain from only this one TSE from only this one part of the globe, will only lead to further failures, and needless exposure to humans from all strains of TSE, and possibly many more needless deaths from TSE via a multitude of proven routes and sources via many studies with primates and rodents and other species.

MY personal belief, since you ask, is that not only the Canadian border, but the USA border, and the Mexican border should be sealed up tighter than a drum for exporting there TSE tainted products, until a validated, 100% sensitive test is available, and all animals for human and animal consumption are tested. all we are doing is the exact same thing the UK did with there mad cow poisoning when they exported it all over the globe, all the while knowing what they were doing. this BSE MRR policy is nothing more than a legal tool to do just exactly what the UK did, thanks to the OIE and GW, it's legal now. and they executed Saddam for poisoning ???

go figure. ...

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Docket APHIS-2006-0041 Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities Docket Type Rulemaking Document APHIS-2006-0041-0001 Document Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived From Bovines Public Submission APHIS-2006-0041-0028.1 Public Submission Title Attachment to Singletary comment

January 28, 2007

Greetings APHIS,

I would kindly like to submit the following to ;

BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01

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