Mike is the OIE not made up of members from 164 member countries ? This is a quote from the OIE
. This was part of the US report from the OIE filed on Feb. 2 2004. And I think if you look at why some of these countries are testing you will find it is because they failed to impliment any precautionary measure to protect from the problem. Japan is testing to win back consumer confidence because they tried so hard to hide the fact, they got caught and that was the only way to save face. The reason the US and Canada are not sitting in the same risk catagory that some of these other countries are is because we had firewalls and safeguards in place to protect from a full blown disaster long before we ever found BSE. Some want to paint all BSE affected countries with the same brush but doesn't the precautionary measures taken by a country count for anything, the OIE seems to think they should.The subcommittee considers testing of all cattle slaughtered for human consumption to be unjustified in terms of protecting human and animal health