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CattleNetwork_Today 2/8/2007 3:39:00 PM


CFIA: Latest Canadian BSE Case Likely Born In 2000



WINNIPEG (Dow Jones)--The Alberta bull that was recently announced as Canada's latest case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was likely born in 2000, according to preliminary information provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.



"Based on some very preliminary information provided by the owner, the animal was likely born in 2000," said Dr. George Luterbach, a veterinarian with the CFIA, on Canada's ninth case of BSE.



While that would mean the animal was born three years after the implementation of Canada's feed restrictions in 1997, Luterbach noted that the country has already seen other cases of BSE in cattle born in 2000.



Luterbach said a thorough investigation was important to determine the exact age of the animal. An investigation of the other cattle born on the northern Alberta farm within a year of the animal in question will also help track down those other animals that may have been exposed to BSE.



A feed investigation will also be conducted, said Luterbach.



The CFIA's investigation could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, depending on the availability of records on the farm, said Luterbach.
 

flounder

Well-known member
USA is still feeding the most highly infectious part of the TSE agent to cattle in 2007, and covering up there mad cow cases ta boot. so what am i missing here ???



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: MAD COW RECALLS Bulk Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried,
1,366,128 lbs., DISTRIBUTION WI, TX, NE, TN, CO, and MN



Subject: MAD COW RECALLS Bulk Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried,
1,366,128 lbs., DISTRIBUTION WI, TX, NE, TN, CO, and MN
Date: February 8, 2007 at 11:34 am PST

MAD COW RECALLS Bulk Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried, 1,366,128 lbs.,
DISTRIBUTION WI, TX, NE, TN, CO, and MN


RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY MEDICINE -- CLASS II
______________________________
PRODUCT
Bulk Darling's 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried, distributed in totes and in
1-ton bags (for one customer only), Recall # V-012-2007
CODE
Blood meal distributed between 9/7/2006-2/3/2007.
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Darling National LLC, Omaha, NB, by telephone on January 12, 2007. Firm
initiated recall is ongoing.
REASON
Some of the exempt bovine blood meal was cross-contaminated with prohibited
bovine meat and bone meal that had been manufactured on common equipment and
the labeling did not bear the cautionary BSE statement that it should not be
fed to ruminants.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
1,366,128 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
WI, TX, NE, TN, CO, and MN

END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 7, 2007

###


http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/enforce/2007/ENF00990.html




> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:20 PM
> Subject: MAD CALF POWDER PACKAGED 9-OZ BOTTLES RECALL finished product BBM
> cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine MBM
>
>
> Subject: MAD CALF POWDER PACKAGED 9-OZ BOTTLES RECALL finished product BBM
> cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine MBM
> Date: January 31, 2007 at 10:00 am PST
> PRODUCT
> O-NO-MORE (Formerly ORPHAN-NO-MORE) Calf Claimer Powder, packaged in 9-oz.
> bottles, For Animal Use Only, Recall # V-011-2007
> CODE
> A07
> RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
> Springer Magrath Co., McCook, NB, by telephone on January 11, 2007 and fax
> on January 12, 2007. Firm initiated recall is complete.
> REASON
> The bovine blood meal which was used to manufacture the finished product
was
> cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal, and the
> finished product is not labeled with the cautionary statement that it
should
> not be fed to ruminants.
> VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
> 300/9-oz. bottles
> DISTRIBUTION
> NE
> END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR JANUARY 31, 2007
>
> ###
>
>
> http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/enforce/2007/ENF00989.html
>
>
>
>
> seems to me the BBM i.e. bovine blood meal would be more of a risk factor
> for bovine TSE i.e. BASE OR BSE or any other strain, than the MBM i.e.
meat
> and bone meal. considering the recent 4th documented case of transfusion
> related vCJD, i still think it is absolutely asinine to continue to use
> bovine blood in feed for any species. i wonder if it's still being used in
> pet foods??? course, we don't have mad cats FSE here in the USA either ;-)
>
>
> INEDIBLE RAW BLOOD, BLOOD MEAL, ADHESIVE FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY FEED,
> PETFOOD, FERTILIZER, GLUES, FOAM FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
>
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1991/05/29008001.pdf
>
>
>
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ws/s168.pdf
>
>
>
>
> Legislative changes and developments in the process post-BSE
>
>
> Voluntary measures adopted by pet food manufacturers
>
>
> 8.45 In July 1988, Spillers stopped using bovine spleen in its products
and
> replaced it with liver. At the same time, it changed its specification for
> ground bone to exclude the use of bovine heads and backbones with the
> intention of eliminating brains and spinal cord.
>
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ws/s168.pdf
>
>
>
>
> 8.47 In February 1989, the report of the Southwood Working Party stated
that
> domestic pets could be susceptible to BSE, if the agent were to reach them
> 'in an adequate dose by an appropriate route'. However, the report also
> suggested that pets such as cats and dogs might not be able to acquire the
> infection orally and that the high temperatures used in the canning
process
> might have destroyed any infectious agent present.
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ib/ibd1/tab02.pdf
>
>
>
> 8.48 By March 1989, it was reported that most companies manufacturing pet
> food were 'avoiding UK cattle nerve tissue, spleen and brains' in favour
of
> sheep or poultry meat.
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1989/03/13006001.pdf
>
>
>
>
> 18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
> December 2006 are now available.
>
>
> snip...
>
> ITEM 9 - ANY OTHER BUSINESS
>
> snip...
>
>
> 64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
> presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be
more
> virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived
BSE.
> ...
>
>
> http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf
>
>
>
>
>
> Instead of UK bovine material, it used poultry and porcine material or
> imported bovine material from outside the UK. Manufacturers had obtained
> materials from the US, Canada and Australasia,
>
>
> http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ws/s168.pdf
>
>
>
>
> Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
> encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in
the
> prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO
A
> MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.
>
>
> snip...
>
>
> http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf
>
>
>
>
>
> 3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse
>
> Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
> Reserve
> University
>
> Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
> discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
> were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
> these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
> Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
> inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
> homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about
half
> of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation
time
> of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
> be infected after more than 2 years.
>
> ***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
> that BASE is more virulent than
> classical BSE in humans.***
>
>
> 6:30 Close of Day One
>
>
> http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp
>
>
>
>
> 3.2.6 The Possibility That BSE-Infected Cattle Carry Infectivity in Their
> Blood
>
> The base case assumes that cattle infected with BSE do not carry
infectivity
> in their blood
>
> (although emboli formation may result in blood contamination). We consider
> the possibility that
>
> 0.016% of the infectivity in an animal with BSE is carried in the blood, a
> value that is consistent
>
> with the assumption that its concentration is at the level of detection in
> an animal with a fullblown
>
> case of BSE (SSC, 2000a).
>
>
> snip...
>
>
> 3.3.3 Domestic Scrapie
>
> The transmission of scrapie from sheep to cattle is one of the primary
> hypotheses for the
>
> origin of BSE (Horn et al., 2001). Moreover, scrapie is present in the
> United States. Although
>
> no North American strain of scrapie has been successfully transmitted to
> cattle exposed orally to
>
> the agent (Cutlip et al., 2001), we evaluate the impact of assuming that
> such transmission is
>
> possible. In particular, if such transmission is possible, we estimate
that
> the rendering of scrapieinfected
>
> sheep could expose the U.S. cattle population to 1 cattle oral ID50 in
feed
> each month.
>
> The derivation of this estimate is based on the assumption that the number
> of cattle oral ID50s
>
> administered to cattle is equal to the product of 1) the number of
> scrapie-infected sheep rendered
>
> each year, 2) the number of sheep oral ID50s per infected animal, 3) the
> inverse of the cattle-sheep
>
> species barrier, and 4) the proportion of infectivity sent to rendering
that
> survives rendering and is
>
> ultimately administered to cattle.
>
>
>
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/bse/risk_assessment/mainreporttext.pdf
>
>
>
>
>
> Subject: [CJD-L] BSE? * Scrapie * CJD * TEXAS -- question please
>
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:28:52 -0600
>
> From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
>
> Reply-To: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
>
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> ############ Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
>
> #############
>
>
> Greetings list members, I have tried to send this message to the experts
>
> on the BSE-List, but it seems to be down. So I thought I would just pass
>
> it through this list, as to most of the experts on this list as well.
>
> Thank You,
>
>
> I would like to ask this question please;
>
>
> What would the risk of B.S.E. be, if any, if the following risk factors
>
> were to have occurred?
>
>
> Lets say in the state of Texas, where there have been several
>
> undocumented clusters of CJD, and one documented cluster of CJD victims.
>
> Lets say that this state is in a category of the 'highest' risk of
>
> B.S.E., due to the risk categories based on Scrapie reported and the
>
> ratio of Dairy Concentrates Fed to Sheep MBM Produced.
>
>
> *The ratio is inversely related to potential risk,
>
> i.e. (F.) is highest risk
>
>
> **Meat and bone meal from sheep > 1 year.
>
>
> Texas Risk category -- [1.] Highest
>
>
> Risk Level [1.] Analysis = Scrapie is reported in the same or adjacent
>
> counties as milk cows having a ratio less than 999.
>
>
> Texas
>
>
> Number of Ewes - (A.) 1,321,967
>
> Number of Flocks - (B.) 6,714
>
> 'Scrapie' infected Flocks - (C.) 10
>
> Incidence per 100 Flocks - (D.) 0.15
>
> Incidence per 10K Ewes - (E.) 0.08
>
>
> Number of Cows with Ratio*
>
> 20-99 (F.) 4,153
>
> 100-999 (G.) 2,572
>
> 1,000-9,999 (H.) 36,972
>
>
> Milk Cow Inventory
>
> (I.) 356,538
>
>
> F+G+H/I Percent
>
> (J.) 12.3
>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Terry S. Singeltary Sr., Bacliff, Texas USA
>
>
> ############ http://mailhost.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/warc/cjd-l.html
>
> ############
>
>
> TEJAS MAD COW, THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Statement
> May 4, 2004
> Media Inquiries: 301-827-6242
> Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
snip...end...tss



JOHANNS AND HIS CLOWNS ARE SENDING BSE ''EXPERT'' TO CANADA

probably to better educate them on ''cover-ups'' of TSE. ...TSS



http://www.usda.gov/2007/02/0031.xml


Release No. 0031.07
Contact:
Keith Williams (202) 720-4623


STATEMENT BY AGRICULTURE SECRETARY MIKE JOHANNS REGARDING A NEW DETECTION OF
BSE IN CANADA

February 8, 2007

"Last night, Canada announced a detection of BSE in a mature bull from
Alberta, Canada. I have visited with Canada's Minister of Agriculture, Chuck
Strahl, who welcomes our participation in the investigation. I am
dispatching a USDA expert to Canada for that purpose.

Based on what is known at this time, I would not expect this Canadian
detection to impact our trade with Canada. Regarding the proposed minimal
risk rule that specifies additional movement of cattle and beef into the
United States, we remain in an open comment period until March 12, 2007.
While the risk assessment for the proposed rule factors in the possibility
of additional cases, the open comment period allows for consideration of
additional information that might result from this investigation."



#
USDA News
[email protected]
202 720-4623



TSS


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.

####

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01061.html


TEXAS BOVINE DISEASE CARCASS DISPOSAL METHOD


“Anthrax is under-reported, because many ranchers in this area automatically
dispose
of carcasses and vaccinate livestock when they find dead animals that are
bloated or
bloody--common signs of the disease,” said Dr. Fancher.


http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/news/pr/2005/2005Jul_Anthrax_Confirmed_in_SuttonCty.pdf



OIG REPORT ON USDA AND HOW NOT TO FIND BSE
Submitted by flounder on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 13:05.

USDA 2004 ENHANCED BSE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM AND HOW NOT TO FIND BSE CASES
(OFFICIAL DRAFT OIG REPORT)

snip...

CATTLE With CNS Symptoms Were NOT Always Tested

snip...

Between FYs 2002 and 2004, FSIS condemned 680 cattle of all ages due to CNS
symptoms. About 357 of these could be classified as adult. We could validate
that ONLY 162 were tested for BSE (per APHIS records. ...

snip...

WE interviewed officials at five laboratories that test for rabies. Those
officials CONFIRMED THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT RABIES-NEGATIVE SAMPLES
TO APHIS FOR BSE TESTING. A South Dakota laboratory official said they were
not aware they could submit rabies-negative samples to APHIS for BSE
testing. A laboratory official in another State said all rabies-negative
cases were not submitted to APHIS because BSE was ''NOT ON THEIR RADAR
SCREEN." Officials from New York, Wisconsin, TEXAS, and Iowa advised they
would NOT submit samples from animals they consider too young. Four of the
five States contacted defined this age as 24 months; Wisconsin defined it as
30 months. TEXAS officials also advised that they do not always have
sufficient tissue remaining to submit a BSE sample. ...

snip...

FULL TEXT 54 PAGES OF HOW NOT TO FIND BSE IN USA ;


http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108_2/pdfs_inves/pdf_food_usda_mad_cow_july_13_ig_rep.pdf


REMINDER, CATTLE ON FEED IN TEXAS


IN TEXAS, cattle on feed for decades, fda says 5.5 grams ruminant protein,
if tainted with TSE, is not enough to kill a cow. actually, it's enough to
kill 100+ cows ;-)

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2001/NEW00752.html


real simple, usda et al are covering cases of mad cow disease i.e. TSEs up
in the USA bovine, and it's been going on for some time. ...TSS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:19 PM
Subject: BSE CONFIRMED IN ALBERTA, February 7, 2007



Subject: BSE CONFIRMED IN ALBERTA February 7, 2007
Date: February 7, 2007 at 5:03 pm PST


BSE CONFIRMED IN ALBERTA

OTTAWA, February 7, 2007 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has
confirmed the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a
mature bull from Alberta. The animal's carcass is under CFIA control, and no
part of it entered the human food or animal feed systems.

Preliminary information indicates that the age of the animal falls well
within the age range of previous cases detected in Canada under the national
BSE surveillance program. This signifies that the animal was exposed to a
very small amount of infective material, most likely during its first year
of life.

An epidemiological investigation directed by international guidelines is
underway to examine what the animal was fed early in its life and to
identify its herdmates at the time. All findings will be publicly released
once the investigation concludes.

Under Canada's enhanced feed ban, which comes into effect on July 12, 2007,
BSE should be eliminated from the national cattle herd within approximately
10 years. The CFIA expects the periodic detection of a limited number of
cases to continue as the level of BSE continues to decline.

The finding of a mature animal should not impact Canada's BSE country
categorization submission to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The science-based BSE risk-level determination process requires that a
country is able to demonstrate a full understanding of the pathways that
resulted in BSE exposure and expression, as well as the implementation of
appropriate comprehensive measures to block those pathways and protect human
and animal health, leading to the eradication of the disease over time.

The animal was identified at the farm level by the national surveillance
program, which has detected all cases found in Canada. The program targets
the highest risk cattle populations and has tested roughly 150,000 animals
since 2003. The surveillance results reflect an extremely low incidence of
BSE in Canada.

- 30 -

For information:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Media relations: 613-228-6682


http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/ab2007/9notavie.shtml




amazing what you will find when you look, and document it. does not matter if you change the thread or not there OT. ...TSS
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
"The animal was identified at the farm level by the national surveillance
program, which has detected all cases found in Canada. The program targets the highest risk cattle populations and has tested roughly 150,000 animals since 2003.

A 7 year old bull (born post ban) is in the highest risk population?
 

cowsense

Well-known member
Sandhusker; The bull died after a rapid deterioration and was probably a downer. These type of deaths are prime candidates for BSE testing and definately qualify under the 4-D classification.
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
cowsense said:
Sandhusker; The bull died after a rapid deterioration and was probably a downer. These type of deaths are prime candidates for BSE testing and definately qualify under the 4-D classification.

All right, I'll buy that.
 
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