CFIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE BSE MAD COW MBM FEED INVESTIGATION

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Animal byproducts found in feed eaten by livestock
Risk of human exposure to mad cow negligible

Dave Rogers, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Tuesday, December 05, 2006
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said yesterday that 10,000 cattle in Eastern Ontario and West Quebec have consumed feed containing traces of animal byproducts, but the risk of exposing humans to mad cow disease is negligible.

The feed on 113 farms in the Ottawa area became contaminated recently when a rail car used to ship meat and bone meal for hog and poultry feed was later used to transport blood meal that was added to cattle feed.

The beef will be sold to Canadians, but the food inspection agency has decided to track the cattle movements so they cannot be exported.

Darcy Unseth, a veterinarian with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, said Russia and Lebanon refuse to accept meat that comes from cattle exposed to meat and bone meal.

Dr. Unseth said 33 sheep and five goats that ate the feed will be placed under similar transport controls. For privacy reasons, the food inspection agency refused to identify the farms that used the feed.

Agribrands Canada spokesman Rob Meijer said the company voluntarily recalled the feed produced at its plants at Addison, near Brockville, and Drummondville, east of Montreal.

Mr. Meijer said the company disposed of the feed at landfill sites and replaced it with cattle feed that did not contain meat and bone meal.

"Feed ingredients come in bulk rail car shipments and there is a cleanout procedure when you are unloading and loading," Mr. Meijer said. "Our suppliers are supposed to bang on the cars with rubber mallets to shake loose any material that may be caught in corners and then wash the hopper cars.

"Unfortunately, in this case, the cleaning may not have been done thoroughly enough. Out of respect for domestic and international sensitivity on this issue, we wanted to make sure that there was no potential for human or animal concerns. We produced the feed and we take 100-per-cent responsibility for this issue."

Dr. Unseth said the cattle ate the feed for up to two weeks, but there is no evidence the feed is a threat to human health.

Canada has a partial ban on adding animal byproducts to feed. In 1997, the government banned the feeding of cattle remains back to cattle and other ruminants, but it still allows cattle remains to be used in feed for chickens, hogs and pets.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating because the production of cattle feed that includes meat, bones and some other byproducts violates government feed regulations and carries a maximum possible penalty of a $250,000 fine and two years in jail.

There is concern and scientific evidence that cross-contamination of animal feed streams can contribute to the spread of the infectious and persistent prions that cause brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.

James Atkinson, a University of Guelph animal nutritionist, said meat and bone meal is added to pig and poultry feed as a source of calcium, phosphorus and protein, but the feed industry is under pressure to keep it out of food for ruminant animals that can get BSE.

"The prions that cause BSE are not living organisms, but are malformed proteins that have the capacity to stimulate further production of that malformed protein in the brain," said Mr. Atkinson. "Over the last 10 years, there has been a much more careful streaming of products from slaughter industries so you keep them separate from each other.

"When you are shipping commodities around, there is a potential for things to get mixed in the supply line unless you have dedicated containers."


http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=89dc6f31-2b09-445f-945e-d701f077ecf9&k=56014



look at the table and you'll see that as little as 1 mg (or 0.001 gm) caused
7% (1 of 14) of the cows to come down with BSE;


Risk of oral infection with bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent in
primates

Corinne Ida Lasmézas, Emmanuel Comoy, Stephen Hawkins, Christian Herzog,
Franck Mouthon, Timm Konold, Frédéric Auvré, Evelyne Correia, Nathalie
Lescoutra-Etchegaray, Nicole Salès, Gerald Wells, Paul Brown, Jean-Philippe
Deslys
Summary The uncertain extent of human exposure to bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE)--which can lead to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(vCJD)--is compounded by incomplete knowledge about the efficiency of oral
infection and the magnitude of any bovine-to-human biological barrier to
transmission. We therefore investigated oral transmission of BSE to
non-human primates. We gave two macaques a 5 g oral dose of brain homogenate
from a BSE-infected cow. One macaque developed vCJD-like neurological
disease 60 months after exposure, whereas the other remained free of disease
at 76 months. On the basis of these findings and data from other studies, we
made a preliminary estimate of the food exposure risk for man, which
provides additional assurance that existing public health measures can
prevent transmission of BSE to man.


snip...


BSE bovine brain inoculum

100 g 10 g 5 g 1 g 100 mg 10 mg 1 mg 0·1 mg 0·01 mg

Primate (oral route)* 1/2 (50%)

Cattle (oral route)* 10/10 (100%) 7/9 (78%) 7/10 (70%) 3/15 (20%) 1/15 (7%)
1/15 (7%)

RIII mice (ic ip route)* 17/18 (94%) 15/17 (88%) 1/14 (7%)

PrPres biochemical detection

The comparison is made on the basis of calibration of the bovine inoculum
used in our study with primates against a bovine brain inoculum with a
similar PrPres concentration that was

inoculated into mice and cattle.8 *Data are number of animals
positive/number of animals surviving at the time of clinical onset of
disease in the first positive animal (%). The accuracy of

bioassays is generally judged to be about plus or minus 1 log. ic
ip=intracerebral and intraperitoneal.

Table 1: Comparison of transmission rates in primates and cattle infected
orally with similar BSE brain inocula


Published online January 27, 2005

http://www.thelancet.com/journal/journal.isa



It is clear that the designing scientists must

also have shared Mr Bradley's surprise at the results because all the dose

levels right down to 1 gram triggered infection.


http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ws/s145d.pdf



2

6. It also appears to me that Mr Bradley's answer (that it would take less
than say 100

grams) was probably given with the benefit of hindsight; particularly if one

considers that later in the same answer Mr Bradley expresses his surprise
that it

could take as little of 1 gram of brain to cause BSE by the oral route
within the

same species. This information did not become available until the "attack
rate"

experiment had been completed in 1995/96. This was a titration experiment

designed to ascertain the infective dose. A range of dosages was used to
ensure

that the actual result was within both a lower and an upper limit within the
study

and the designing scientists would not have expected all the dose levels to
trigger

infection. The dose ranges chosen by the most informed scientists at that
time

ranged from 1 gram to three times one hundred grams. It is clear that the
designing

scientists must have also shared Mr Bradley's surprise at the results
because all the

dose levels right down to 1 gram triggered infection.


http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/ws/s147f.pdf



Re: BSE .1 GRAM LETHAL NEW STUDY SAYS via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts

[BBC radio 4 FARM news]


http://www.maddeer.org/audio/BBC4farmingtoday2_1_03.ram



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



2) Infectious dose:

To cattle: 1 gram of infected brain material (by oral ingestion)


http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/sci/bio/bseesbe.shtml



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Canada cattle confined after suspect feed case
Fri Dec 8, 2006 1:40 PM EST


WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Canadian cattle remained confined on Friday to farms that received suspect feed last month, although Canada's chief veterinarian said it was extremely unlikely the feed could cause mad cow disease.

The cattle are on 113 farms in Ontario and Quebec that received feed with an ingredient that may have contained trace amounts of meat and bone meal made from cattle.

Since 1997, Canada has banned meat and bone meal from feed for cattle and other ruminant livestock because of the risk of spreading bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.

Canada's detailed investigation into the feed ban infraction is now being reviewed by scientific experts in Europe and Asia, said Brian Evans, chief veterinarian at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

"The potential that these animals could develop BSE over time is remote. One cannot say zero, and that's the reason by which precautionary measures have been taken," Evans said in an interview.

Canada has had eight cases of mad cow disease in its domestic herd since May 2003, and hopes to eliminate the disease within a decade by tightening its feed rules.

Humans can develop a rare form of the fatal disease from eating contaminated meat, and 200 people have died from it, mainly in Britain, which experienced an outbreak of BSE in the 1980s.

Last month, Cargill Ltd. notified the CFIA that it had shipped a feed ingredient in a rail car that had not been completely cleaned out after previously containing meat and bone meal.

"The material of meat and bone meal that might have been present there was measurable in a matter of pounds: it wasn't a significant level of contamination," Evans said.

The CFIA's investigation found the meat and bone meal came from a slaughter plant that handled only young, healthy cattle unlikely to have developed mad cow disease, which takes an average of four to seven years to incubate.

The feed ingredient shipped in the rail car was added to the top of a feed mill's storage silo, and may not actually have been added to any feed rations before the mistake was uncovered, Evans said.



Cargill quickly recalled and destroyed the feed, he said.

About 80 percent of the livestock on the farms that received the feed were dairy cattle, and about 70 percent of the livestock were older animals, which are less susceptible to BSE, Evans said.

All the livestock have been permanently identified using Canada's national tracing system so that the CFIA can track them over their life spans, he said.

The livestock can be slaughtered and consumed in Canada, where food safety rules ban all brains, spines and other material that can harbor mad cow disease.

The meat might not be eligible for export, Evans said, depending on the technical requirements of importers.

In the short term, farmers are not allowed to otherwise sell or move the animals from their farms, Evans said.

"We're now starting to look at what are the other options that can be applied in segregating animals based on potential risk," he said.

Farmers have been patient, although they have some concern that their livestock may have a "stigma" because of the investigation, he said.

A spokesman for Cargill said the company has informed farmer-customers that it will help them through the process.

"We will ensure that our customers are not unfairly harmed by this, economically or otherwise," Rob Meijer said.

Cargill's suppliers have voluntarily started to use dedicated rail cars for shipping feed ingredients, he said.

The CFIA continues to review Cargill's procedures.

© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.






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[Econ101]

Since the harm was done by Cargill, I would think the producers would have a good case against them.

How is that Canadian justice?

 

[DaleK]

They're going to be permanently marked and the only place they can go is Gencor foods when they are eventually culled. Vets have to certify them in the assembly yards for Gencor before they can go. There were three cars that had MBM in them, the worker that was supposed to clean them apparently got pissed at his boss after the second one and left early without cleaning out the third one. His replacement saw the first two cars cleaned and assumed the guy before did the job he was supposed to have done.

Lawyers are salivating, the feed that was "contaminated" was corn gluten. The REALLY aggravating part (if there needs to be anything more) is that some of these farms weren't supposed to have corn gluten in their ration, Purina substituted it for soymeal without telling the farmers or their nutritionists to save a buck on their end. Some of the nutritionists/vets are talking about a boycott on Purina for ignoring the rations.

 

[Econ101]

Dale, that substitution was just pure cheating. Who is supposed to oversee companies like Purina? Is it buyer beware?

 

[DaleK]

CFIA is supposed to be monitoring the WAY in which things are mixed and handled and restricted feeds but I think when it comes to substituting a non-restricted feed for another it's pretty much buyer beware.

 

[Tam]

Terry at times we rub each other to wrong way on these boards some times intentional and other times not. What does bother the cattle industry is the contined refferal to BSE as "madcow".
Cows aren't the only animal that has problems with TSE's so why do we not refer to it with it;s proper name.
In doing that it would remove one irritatant from the process of trying to resolve this issue.
Maybe you could mention this to your contacts at vegscource and see if they would like to lead the wat by changing the name of their web site to"Bse at vegscource". Just a suggestion.

Terry and I are likely even more offended by the term Mad Cow BTW. At a large executive meeting, a corporate officer put up a cartoon of a "mad" cow terrorizing a city. I emailed him immediately saying it was tasteless, considering the pain and suffering of the various victims which include y'all too. Ironically, he's my boss and knows perfectly well what our family suffered. I am very upset when the television shows cows staggering and makes silly jokes about "Mad Cow". These diseases are to be taken seriously as emerging zoonotic diseases and to be stamped out, not made into a joke and dismissed.

Reader, if Terry is "likely even more offended by the term Mad Cow" then why did he start this thread by using the term in his attention grabbing title? :?

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: CFIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE BSE MAD COW MBM FEED INVESTIGATION

Subject: CFIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE BSE MAD COW MBM FEED INVESTIGATION OF 100 FARMS
Date: November 21, 2006 at 2:06 pm PST

And why did he use the term in additional posts in this same thread?

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

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USA MAD COW FEED IN COMMERCE;

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:53 am Post subject:

THANK GOD! but these bimbos will have to act, or it will be the same old BSe going around ;

LETS be honest with ourselves folks, the feed ban on both sides of the border was nothing more than a damn piece of paper, nothing more. most did not even know about it in 2001, i listened in on a 50 state BSE emergency conference call on Jan 9, 2001 that showed just this. IN reality, there were no feed bans in either Canada, or the USA that anyone adhered to, and when the ones that did get busted for feeding out potential BSE/TSE tainted feed, there were nothing more than a few slaps on the wrist, and a deer producer letter asking not to do it again, and again, and again, some of these folks got many many of the same warning letters. then you have so many smaller companies that are not even on the radar screen that go completely unregulated. it's really a sad joke. but my point here is, Purina, the BIG P, you don't mess with them, and in essence, the FDA has done just that, nothing much, just look at all that potential mad cow feed in USA

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

Subject: CFIA MAD COW FEED INVESTIGATIONs ABOUT AS WORTHLESS AS USDAs UPDATE
Date: December 1, 2006 at 1:32 pm PST

If you are "likely even more offended by the term" why is it the fourth page of replies, Terry has repeatedly used the term throughout the thread and you are yet to post to Terry asking him to stop using the offending term? Now that BMR asked him to stop you come to Terry's defence saying he is "even more offended by the term", which by his repeated use of it, I would have to wonder just how offended he really is!!!!

This is why the term lives on Reader, people defend the user of the term instead of supporting the efforts of those that want it stopped. :wink: Just like when you hammered me for a typo instead of going after Oldtimer for using misleading attention grabbing Headlines, that included the offending term, to further his agenda. :x

 

[flounder]

Terry at times we rub each other to wrong way on these boards some times intentional and other times not. What does bother the cattle industry is the contined refferal to BSE as "madcow".
Cows aren't the only animal that has problems with TSE's so why do we not refer to it with it;s proper name.
In doing that it would remove one irritatant from the process of trying to resolve this issue.
Maybe you could mention this to your contacts at vegscource and see if they would like to lead the wat by changing the name of their web site to"Bse at vegscource". Just a suggestion.

Terry and I are likely even more offended by the term Mad Cow BTW. At a large executive meeting, a corporate officer put up a cartoon of a "mad" cow terrorizing a city. I emailed him immediately saying it was tasteless, considering the pain and suffering of the various victims which include y'all too. Ironically, he's my boss and knows perfectly well what our family suffered. I am very upset when the television shows cows staggering and makes silly jokes about "Mad Cow". These diseases are to be taken seriously as emerging zoonotic diseases and to be stamped out, not made into a joke and dismissed.

hi there r-2,


i use the term mad cow and will continue to use the terminology.
the only thing that really offends me is the bozos that still refuse to
acknowledge that NORTH AMERICA as a whole has a serious TSE problem.
and if you told 95% of the people that, they would not know what the hell your talking about, use mad cow, and they do. i.e. mad cow in deer is cwd, mad cow in sheep is scrapie so on and so forth.
unfortunately, mad cow is the only thing that grabs people attention when you are speaking about TSEs, whether it be bse, base, cwd, tme, fse, scrapie, kuru, cjd, ffi, gss or whatever type TSE there of. you can call it whatever the hell you want it is not going to change the ignorance that has surrounded this issue, and continues to do so today, through nothing more than sheer greed. there are many families of TSE victims that do not like to use the term mad cow. i use it to bring the attention to the fact that the ukbsenvcjd only theory was a hoax from the very beginning. it's all the same shinola, just different strains as they mutate from one species to the next. when the world becomes familiar with the terminology of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy and all the surnames there of, and that fact that the ukbsenvcjd only madcow theory was not true, i will then use whatever terminology the industry wants to use. until then, we have our own mad cows here in the USA, now documented with two phenotypes, BSE and BASE, and after the discovery of the second atypical strain, the usda just shut testing and surveillance down to nothing, because they knew they had a serious problem. it's not what you call it, its what you do about it, and to call it anything else, is just trying to make it go away, change the publics perseption of it, and they will ignore it. not gonna happen here. ...


r-2 wrote;

Terry / Flounder - I'll be thinking of you this week on 12/14/2006. R2

We also get testy this time of the year -- 1/2/2004. It will be three years.


thanks, ill be thinking and praying for you and yours through the holiday season too.........terry

 

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IA #71-02, 1/21/04, IMPORT ALERT #71-02, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION OF ANIMAL FEEDS AND FEED INGREDIENTS THAT MAY CONTAIN ***
INGREDIENTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN***", ATTACHMENT 9/15/06

NOTE: Revisions of this Import Alert include modification of the alert title
and charge, and clarification of the reason for this alert, and of the
guidance section. Changes are highlighted by asterisks (***)

TYPE OF ALERT: DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

(Note: This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field
personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or product(s) at issue. It does
not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to
bind FDA or the public).

PRODUCT: Animal feeds and feed ingredients that may contain
ingredients of animal origin [See Attachment]

PRODUCT CODE: 69[][][][][] - medicated animal feeds
70[][][][][] - non-medicated animal feeds
71[][][][][] - by products for animal food
72[][][][][] - pet and laboratory animal food

PROBLEM: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Certain animal
feeds and feed ingredients from BSE-affected or BSE-at-risk
countries that may contain ingredients of animal origin.

PAF: FIL

PAC: 71R844

COUNTRY: See Attachment

MANUFACTURERS/
SHIPPERS: See Attachment

CHARGE: *** "The article is subject to refusal of admission
pursuant to Section 801(a)(1)in that it appears that such
article has been manufactured, processed, or packed under
insanitary conditions." *** (OASIS Charge Code: MFR INSAN)

RECOMMENDING
OFFICE: Center for Veterinary Medicine, HFV-230, and ORO/Division of
Import Operations and Policy, HFC-170

REASON FOR
ALERT: *** The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS),
Veterinary Services (VS) regulates the importation of
animals and animal-derived materials. More specifically,
under 9 CFR 95.4, the USDA does not allow the importation of
animal feeds or feed ingredients that contain or consist of
processed animal protein (e.g. meat and bone meal) and other
animal waste and by product materials that have been derived
from animals that have been in specified BSE-affected and
BSE-at-risk countries. The USDA may, however, allow for the
importation of specific non-ruminant animal-derived
products, provided the product is the subject of a valid
USDA import permit (VS Form 16-6)

BSE is the bovine form of a group of uniformly fatal
Neurological diseases known as TSEs (Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathies). BSE appears to be spread in
part through feeding of infected material to cattle. At
this time, the causative agent is unknown and there is no
test for the presence of the agent in animal derived
products. There appears to be a link between the bovine
TSE, BSE, and a human form of TSE known as vCJD (new variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease).

In support of the USDA/APHIS import prohibitions, the FDA
instituted Import Alert #99-25, "Detention Without Physical
examination of Animal Feed, Animal Feed Ingredients and
Other Products For Animal Use Consisting or Containing
Ingredients of Animal Origin and NOT the subject of a valid
USDA permit."

To ensure compliance with Import Alert #99-25, the FDA has a
sampling program to conduct random sampling and analysis of
feed and feed ingredients for the presence of animal tissues
offered for entry into the U.S. The firms listed in the
Attachment of this Import Alert #71-02 have offered feed
and/or feed ingredients into the U.S. that have been found
to contain animal protein upon sampling and analysis. ***

GUIDANCE: *** Districts may detain without physical examination
products offered for import from those firms that are listed
on the attachment. In order to fully evaluate whether such
products contain ingredients of animal origin subject to
detention under Import Alert #99-25 and, if so, whether this
problem has been corrected, FDA recommends that firms
provide the following information:

1. Evidence that the firm has determined that the
products it is importing are no longer subject to
detention under Import Alert 99-25, because it has
taken appropriate steps to prevent the presence of
animal material in feed and feed ingredients.
This should be documented by:

a. Results of the firm's investigation(s) into the
problem of animal protein contamination.

b. Documentation showing corrective action(s).
This should include at a minimum:

1) a description of the current processes
being used to prevent contamination and

2) verification that the processes are
adequate

c. Documentation, based on current feed microscopy
analytical methodology, that a minimum of five
(5) consecutive import entries have been
released by FDA based on private laboratory
analyses that show the shipments contain no
material of animal origin. Requests to remove
from the DWPE list multiple products from a
manufacturer should include a minimum of twelve
(12) import entries representative of products
covered by detention without physical
examination.

OR

2. Evidence that the product is the subject of a valid
USDA import permit (VS Form 16-6).

All requests for removal from DWPE should be forwarded
to(HFC-170)at the address below. Requests will be
forwarded to CVM for evaluation.

Food And Drug Administration
Division, Import Operations and Policy
(HFC-170), Room 12-38
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857 ***

PRIORITIZATION
GUIDANCE: I

FOI: No purging is required

KEYWORDS: feeds, mammalian protein, animal, BSE, TSE

PREPARED BY: Dave Krawetz, DIOP, (HFC-170) 301-594-3872
Linda Wisniowski, DIOP, (HFC-170) 301-443-6553
CVM contact: Neal Bataller, HFV-230, 301-827-0163

DATE LOADED
INTO FIARS: January 21, 2004
ATTACHMENT 9/15/06

Firms/Products on Detention without Physical Examination:

CANADA (CA)

Firm name and address: Product/product code: Reason:

Agricore United Medicated animal feeds Muscle tissue
P.O. Box 420 69[][][][][] blood material
Carseland Non-medicated animal feeds
Alberta, Canada T0L 070 70[][][][][]
FEI# 3004318200 5/10/04


Aliments Breton Inc. Poultry Feed Avian and mammalian
1312 St.George Street 70M[][]03 bones, hairs, soft
St. Bernard, Quebec, Canada 6/2/05 tissue and feathers
FEI# 3004346002

Cereales D.L. Ltee Medicated animal feeds Blood, Bone
25 Avenue Du Pont 69[][][][][] material present
Saint-Louis De Gonzague Non-medicated animal feeds
Quebec, Canada J0S 1T0 70[][][][][]
FEI# 3003447727 4/6/04

Dawn Foods Products Medicated animal feeds Muscle tissue
75 33rd St. E 69[][][][][] feather barbule
Saskatoon, Canada S7K3K7 Non-medicated animal feeds material
FEI# 1000344064 70[][][][][]
12/30/03

Excel Feeds Ltd. Medicated feeds Blood material, bovine
3007 Turner St. 69[][][][][] hair, and mammalian
Abbotsford, B.C., Non-medicated feeds bone material
Canada V2S7T9 70[][][][][]
FEI #3004316870 9/15/06

Landmark Feeds Inc. Macintosh Beef Calf Grower Contains
1950 Brier Park Rd. NW with corn suspect
Medicine Hat 70M--01 muscle and
Alberta Canada T1C 1V3 8/24/04 blood tissue
FEI# 3001400728


Land O Lakes Feeds Bagged medicated Blood and
90540 London Rd., RR#2 animal feeds blood meal
Wingham, Ontario, Canada 69[][][][][]
N0G 2W0 Bagged non-medicated
FEI# 3004318728 animal feeds
70[][][][][]
6/2/05


Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd. Medicated animal feeds Muscle tissue
(Brass Facility) 69[][][][][]
P.O. Box 689 Non-medicated animal feeds
Wilkie, Saskatchewan 70[][][][]
Canada SOK 4WO 12/30/03
FEI #3004283114

Masterfeeds Medicated animal feeds Blood material
11 Jamieson Ave. 69[][][][][]
Picture Butte, AB Non-medicated animal feeds
T0K 1VO, Canada 70[][][][][]
FEI #3003541855 10/3/03

Oleet Processing Ltd Medicated feeds Mammalian muscle
Box 26011 69[][][][][] and mammalian bone
Regina, SK, Canada Non-medicated feeds material
S4R8R7 70[][][][][]
FEI #3003334575 9/15/06

Ritchie Smith Feeds Inc. Medicated animal feeds Blood, muscle
33777 Enterprise Avenue 69[][][][][] tissue, and
Abbotsford, BC, V2S 4N9 Non-medicated animal feeds feather barbule
Canada 70[][][][][]
FEI #1000501066 10/3/03


Sure Crop Feeds Medicated animal feeds Feather barbules,
Box 250, Hwy 97 North 69[][][][][] suspect muscle
Grindrod, B.C., Canada Non-medicated animal feeds tissue, suspect
FEI# 1000399575 70[][][][][] blood, suspect
9/30/05 mammalian and
poultry bones,
unidentified
animal hair,
bovine and porcine
mitochondrial by
PRC


Unifeed Medicated animal feeds Blood and
1810 39th Street 69[][][][][] unidentified
Lethbridge, Alberta, Non-medicated animal feeds animal hair
Canada 70[][][][][]
FEI# 1000435528 10/3/03


Unifeed Limited dba Mixed ration for cattle Suspect muscle
Sure Crop Feeds 69[][][][][]/70[][][][][] tissue and bone
1150 Industrial Dr. 9/30/05 mammalian material
Armstrong, B.C. Canada
FEI #3003110241 Address Change
3/29/06


CHINA (CN)

FIRM PRODUCT/PRODUCT CODE REASON

TSM International Ltd. Rawhide Baseball Baseball covering
No. 17 Bao Ching St (Dog Chew) appears to be natural
Taipei, Taiwan 72[][][][][] material.
Republic of China 71[][][][][] (Soft Tissue Present)
FEI# 3004202751 4/6/04


http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia7102.html

http://www.fda.gov/cvm/Documents/7371-009.pdf

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


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