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Canadian BSE Investigation Heads South to U.S.

Mike

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BSE investigation heads south from Canada
Probe tracks 15 herdmates of B.C. dairy cow that had rare nerve disease; location, breed and age of cohort cow that was found in Washington not made public

Tam Moore
Capital Press Staff Writer

It’s happened again: Replacement dairy cattle associated with a Canadian bovine spongiform encephalopathy case were shipped to the U.S., including at least one in Washington state.

Canadian and U.S. animal health officials announced the cross-border investigation as part of investigating animals that might have eaten the same rations fed to a BSE-positive cow at a dairy in Chilliwack, B.C. The purebred Holstein was confirmed with BSE in mid-April.

It was a Canadian import tested after slaughter in December 2003 that became the first U.S. BSE case. That animal was one of several dozen from an Alberta dairy dispersal sale that ended up at dairies in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2005, herdmates of another Canadian BSE cow were traced to the United States; none tested positive for BSE.

This time 15 herdmates of the B.C. dairy cow were shipped to the United States, and investigators located one of those animals in Washington, said Jim Rogers, spokesman for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Rogers declined to disclose where in the state the cow was found. He did not know the breed or age of the animal.

The cohort cow was euthanized on April 27, and BSE tests were negative on April 28, Rogers said. It was unclear where the test was performed. Investigators were still searching for the remaining 14 animals, Rogers said.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture declined to comment and referred questions to Rogers.

Jay Gordon, executive director of the Washington State Dairy Federation, said the livestock industry has been in contact with state veterinarian Leonard Eldridge and offered help and support. Gordon said the industry has “a lot of faith” in Eldridge and his ability to handle the situation.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week traced a total of 23 animals that shared rations with the reactor cow. Eight head remain in Canada and were quarantined for slaughter and BSE testing. The BSE cow was born in 2000, three years after both Canada and the United States put in place a ban on feeding ruminant-derived protein to cattle and other ruminant animals.

CFIA veterinarian George Luterbach said about 150 animals are sought in the wide-ranging investigation. They include animals and their offspring born one year before and one year after the BSE cow, and offspring of those cattle.

Scientists believe that rendered protein from BSE-infected central nervous system tissue is the way the rare disease is passed on to other animals. Typically, it takes about five years after a calf eats tainted food before physical symptoms of the fatal brain-wasting disease are observed. In the Chilliwack case, a local veterinarian and the owner observed BSE symptoms and put down the animal for testing.

Canadian Press, Reuters and staff writer Peggy Steward contributed to this report. Tam Moore is based in Medford, Ore. His e-mail address is [email protected]
 

Bill

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Must have peeled that off the R-Calf website. :roll:

No mention of the 2 native US cases with no ties to Canada? :oops:
 

Sandhusker

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Bill said:
Must have peeled that off the R-Calf website. :roll:

No mention of the 2 native US cases with no ties to Canada? :oops:

"Canadian Press, Reuters and staff writer Peggy Steward contributed to this report".
 

Bill

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Yes that was unfair of me. They obviously use much more credible sources than the R-Calf website.

I did find the last paragraph of this article very interesting.
More BSE animals in U.S?

Tam Moore
Capital Press Staff Writer

Odds are that four to seven head of cattle in the United States have bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a draft U.S. Department of Agriculture report says.

The estimate, released for review by non-government statisticians April 28, will become the foundation for a future U.S. BSE surveillance program. After Canadian and U.S. BSE confirmations in 2003, USDA launched a massive testing of cow brains in June 2004 to see how widespread the rare disease might be in this country.

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says BSE surveillance — which concentrates on older cattle at risk of having the rare disease — isn’t a food safety program. Cattle more than 30 months old are targeted by the food safety program. It requires removing the central nervous system and other materials at that might be contaminated with the BSE-causing agent. Those risk materials are also banned from being rendered into protein supplements for any ruminant animal.

“The enhanced surveillance program gives us the ability to stand on solid scientific ground in saying the prevalence of BSE in the United States is extraordinarily low,” Johanns said. “But I would argue that there’s little justification for continuing surveillance at this level once our analysis is affirmed by peer review ensuring we have a very, very scientific prevalence estimate.”

There are about 42 million head of adult cattle in the United States. The estimate works out to fewer than one BSE animal out of 1 million. That’s about the same BSE incident that would be expected in spontaneous cases of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Other forms of the rare and fatal brain disease have been found in deer, elk, sheep, mink and humans.

Two mathematical models were used by USDA consultants. One worked directly with data from 735,213 BSE tests run in the U.S. during the past seven years. The other model factors in declines in BSE incidents after a U.S. and Canadian ban on ruminant-derived cattle feed went into place in 1997.

The possibility that the USDA will decrease the frequency of BSE tests has implications for export of U.S. beef. Japan, for example, maintains 100 percent BSE testing of domestic cattle slaughtered for human consumption after confirming 25 BSE cases since 2001. U.S. technical inspections for recertification of slaughter plants wishing to export to Japan began this week with hopes that trade — interrupted after banned bone material was found in a January veal shipment — might resume by mid- to late June.

Johanns said the U.S. is updating all trading partners on the contents of the draft BSE report.

Animal Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Ron DeHaven said whatever the sampling goals set for the future, the USDA surveillance program will continue to concentrate on older cattle and those with symptoms related to central nervous system diseases.

“These would be the animals most likely to test positive,” said DeHaven.

At last week’s World Meat Congress in Australia, Gary Johnson, the worldwide supply manager for McDonald’s restaurant chain, said what consumers want is a food safety system that provides animal traceback to past owners.

Jeremy Russell, who represented National Meat Association at the congress, told NMA’s members this week about Nippon Meat Packers traceback in Japan. It lets a consumer go to an Internet site and match information on the meat package with ownership, including beef originating in Australia.
MarketWatch contributed to this report. Tam Moore is based in Medford, Ore. His e-mail is [email protected]
 

Sandhusker

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Bill, "Yes that was unfair of me. They obviously use much more credible sources than the R-Calf website."

This comment coming from someone who posts Steve Dittmer's each and every release from the "foundation"? :roll: :roll: Geeeeeeeeeeze
 

PORKER

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Jeremy Russell, who represented National Meat Association at the congress, told NMA’s members this week about Nippon Meat Packers traceback in Japan. It lets a consumer go to an Internet site and match information on the meat package with ownership, including beef originating in Australia. *******Who did that FIRST ??? SCORINGAG Did that back in 2001
 

Bill

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Sandhusker said:
Bill, "Yes that was unfair of me. They obviously use much more credible sources than the R-Calf website."

This comment coming from someone who posts Steve Dittmer's each and every release from the "foundation"? :roll: :roll: Geeeeeeeeeeze
Nope not each and every release just the ones that make R-Calfers squirm because they expose their lies.
 

PORKER

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Nippon Meat Packers traceback in Japan. It lets a consumer go to an Internet site and match information on the meat package with ownership, including beef originating in Australia.MAYBE IT SHOULD SAY Canada,USA.

SO IF CFIA veterinarian George Luterbach said about 150 animals are sought in the wide-ranging investigation,WHERE ARE THEY?????. They include animals and their offspring born one year before and one year after the BSE cow, and offspring of those cattle. MORE or LESS in NORTH AMERICA!!

Scientists believe that rendered protein from BSE-infected central nervous system tissue is the way the rare disease is passed on to other animals. Typically, it takes about five years after a calf eats tainted food before physical symptoms of the fatal brain-wasting disease are observed. IF THATS THE CASE BSE URINE TEST THEM!!! In the Chilliwack case, a local veterinarian and the owner observed BSE symptoms and put down the animal for testing. URINE TEST WHOLE HERDS.
 

Bill

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PORKER said:
Nippon Meat Packers traceback in Japan. It lets a consumer go to an Internet site and match information on the meat package with ownership, including beef originating in Australia.MAYBE IT SHOULD SAY Canada,USA.

SO IF CFIA veterinarian George Luterbach said about 150 animals are sought in the wide-ranging investigation,WHERE ARE THEY?????. They include animals and their offspring born one year before and one year after the BSE cow, and offspring of those cattle. MORE or LESS in NORTH AMERICA!!

Scientists believe that rendered protein from BSE-infected central nervous system tissue is the way the rare disease is passed on to other animals. Typically, it takes about five years after a calf eats tainted food before physical symptoms of the fatal brain-wasting disease are observed. IF THATS THE CASE BSE URINE TEST THEM!!! In the Chilliwack case, a local veterinarian and the owner observed BSE symptoms and put down the animal for testing. URINE TEST WHOLE HERDS.
Have you found any country that is urine testing for BSE?
 

Sandhusker

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Bill said:
Sandhusker said:
Bill, "Yes that was unfair of me. They obviously use much more credible sources than the R-Calf website."

This comment coming from someone who posts Steve Dittmer's each and every release from the "foundation"? :roll: :roll: Geeeeeeeeeeze
Nope not each and every release just the ones that make R-Calfers squirm because they expose their lies.

Yeah, right. Whatever, Bill. :roll:
 

Econ101

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Bill said:
PORKER said:
Nippon Meat Packers traceback in Japan. It lets a consumer go to an Internet site and match information on the meat package with ownership, including beef originating in Australia.MAYBE IT SHOULD SAY Canada,USA.

SO IF CFIA veterinarian George Luterbach said about 150 animals are sought in the wide-ranging investigation,WHERE ARE THEY?????. They include animals and their offspring born one year before and one year after the BSE cow, and offspring of those cattle. MORE or LESS in NORTH AMERICA!!

Scientists believe that rendered protein from BSE-infected central nervous system tissue is the way the rare disease is passed on to other animals. Typically, it takes about five years after a calf eats tainted food before physical symptoms of the fatal brain-wasting disease are observed. IF THATS THE CASE BSE URINE TEST THEM!!! In the Chilliwack case, a local veterinarian and the owner observed BSE symptoms and put down the animal for testing. URINE TEST WHOLE HERDS.
Have you found any country that is urine testing for BSE?

It seems we have a few Canadians who are willing to be bse tested if someone would hold the cup. Maybe you could volunteer for that job, Bill.

You could help Canada be a "leader" on these issues.
 

Bill

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Sandhusker said:
Bill said:
Sandhusker said:
Bill, "Yes that was unfair of me. They obviously use much more credible sources than the R-Calf website."

This comment coming from someone who posts Steve Dittmer's each and every release from the "foundation"? :roll: :roll: Geeeeeeeeeeze
Nope not each and every release just the ones that make R-Calfers squirm because they expose their lies.

Yeah, right. Whatever, Bill. :roll:
That Mike Meyers/Austin Powers thing suits you Sandhusker.

You don't seem to mind hime being a Canadian import.
 

flounder

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ncba this, r-calf that, canada beef this, USA beef that :liar:

it's like the pot calling the kettle black. :lol2:

you folks are only kidding yourself. no one else. :cry2:

instead of lying to one another about it, just admit it, fix the problem and go on. :clap:

i will say Canada is a step above the rest (N. America) due to SRM controls etc, NOW, but this is a
recent phenomenon. all one has to do is read the BSE GBR risk assessments. BUT, this
is why GW et al (OIE, Canada and others) went along with the BSE MRR policy, it was
nothing more than trade, commodities and futures, had nothing to do with animal or human
health, and this is what GW called 'sound science', the legal trading of all strains of TSE globally...

TSS




EFSA Scientific Report on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of Mexico

Adopted July 2004 (Question N° EFSA-Q-2003-083)


[Last updated 08 September 2004]




http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/565/sr04_biohaz02_mexico_report_v2_en1.pdf






EFSA Scientific Report on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of the United States of America (USA)

Adopted July 2004 (Question N° EFSA-Q-2003-083)


[Last updated 08 September 2004]




http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/573/sr03_biohaz02_usa_report_v2_en1.pdf






EFSA Scientific Report on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of Canada

Adopted July 2004 (Question N° EFSA-Q-2003-083)


[Last updated 08 September 2004]




http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/564/sr02_biohaz02_canada_report_v2_en1.pdf






TSS
 

PORKER

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Say Terry,did you see the way a traceback happens in a computer system,here is a link http://www.scoringag.com/Public/docs/point_to_point_traceback.pps
 
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