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Glow in cattle's eyes may be a sign of mad cow disease

flounder

Well-known member
would not matter if every mad cow here in the USA had glowing red eyes, or had a sign stuck in the rear end saying ''i have mad cow disease'', and then commenced on stumbling and staggering around. just would not matter. the USDA has done everything possible to cover-up mad cow disease in the USA, and this has been proven.


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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
 

flounder

Well-known member
bakSovrbar said:
If you ever spot those cows with those signs, please let me know.
It would make an excellent photo op.


you don't see those, they call it SSS i.e. shoot, shovel, and shut the hell hup...tss



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.

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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),

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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


FDA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 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 30th, 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.

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http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2004/ucm108292.htm




Members of The HSUS are also concerned about the meat products provided to their children through the National School Lunch Program. More than 31 million school children receive lunches through the program each school day. To assist states in providing healthful, low-cost or free meals, USDA provides states with various commodities including ground beef.

As evidenced by the HallmarkNVestland investigation and recall, the potential for downed animals to make their way into the National School Lunch Program is neither speculative nor hypothetical.

http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/FDA/hsus-v-schafer-usda-complaint.pdf



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Over the next 8-10 weeks, approximately 40% of all the adult mink on the farm died from TME.

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The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy cattle...


http://web.archive.org/web/20030516051623/http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab05.pdf





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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
 

bakSovrbar

Well-known member
So, I just interviewed the researcher and here's an interesting thing he can do...

He can quickly and easily test ground beef for spinal cord and brain tissue, which of course, really shouldn't be in there.

Now, what I am really curious to know, is if any is found, how often it is found and use two groups for study - American and Canadian ground beef.

Now, I am not trying to get into any kind of BSE pissing match, but for instance, if the Canadian ground beef had just as much spinal cord as the American beef, it would make one wonder whether or not the enhanced feed ban regulations (SRM removal) are worth what they are costing the industry.

Or, if there is a significant difference, it may serve to justify the cost.

Also, I learned in the interview that the glowing eye method seems to be a relatively reliable way of spotting central nervous system damage, and most importantly - is reliable even when the animal is very young.

Some of the backlash against BSE testing is that the current kits are not very reliable in UTM cattle... so, this could be an interesting development in the industry.

Guess I should have saved my excitement for next week's paper, but since I don't think any of you are subscribers, I won't panic too much. ;)
 
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