Murgen said:Did you read the report? They were presented with the possibilty of it back in 1988.
And no, you won't know for sure, unless you test for it. But if there is the possibilty, then you shouldn't keep doing as you're doing without first investigating a little.
If you say we won't know for sure unless we test, why do you say we knew we had it?
Murgen said:OT, have you ever thought that the South Koreans don't want US meat on the same line as Canadian, cause they are confident the US will screw up again, and they don't trust it not to be blamed on Canadian meat.
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Murgen said:OT, do you think the USDA are doing their jobs?
Do you think anybody should trust the inspections and testing they do?
No need to answer, you've already told us you don't.
So what country in their right mind would believe in the USDA?
As we Canadians predicted, Japan opened at the roughly the same time for Canada as it did for the US, and I predict it will for South Korea also.
So the South Koreans will negotiate a deal that enables them to segregate product from each country, in the case of another screw-up. Some Canadian plants have already been approved for S. Korea. (separate lines for OTM and Under)
Which country's regulatory body has the better record of screwing up, and hiding the fact after?
I was told sometime ago that the Japanese export market would have been open to US cattle long before it was if the USDA hadn't held out to tie in Canadian cattle too....
Murgen said:If you say we won't know for sure unless we test, why do you say we knew we had it?
Read the report, and see if your answer is in there.
Murgen said:Did they know they had a case when they put it on the shelf for 7 months?
Epidemiologic investigation of a new incidence of
transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) in Stetsonville, Wisconsin
suggests that the disease may have resulted from feeding infected
cattle to mink. This observation is supported by the transmission of
a TME-like disease to experimentally inoculated cattle, and by the
recent report of a new bovine spongiform encephalopathy in
England.
These studies were supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison and by a grant (85-CRCR-1-1812) from the United States Department of Agriculture. The authors also wish to acknowledge the help and
encouragement of Robert Hanson who died during the course of these
investigations.