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Miss Tam and SSAP are full of malarkey

Have Miss Tam & SSAP been BS ing the board

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HAY MAKER

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Their theory on canada's feed ban is as full of holes as their panties,they have been intentionally "BS" ing the board as I suspected and this article proves it..................good luck
Harkin says Canada's feed ban not working
Thursday, May 3, 2007, 2:46 PM

by Peter Shinn

Canada announced Wednesday it had discovered its tenth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an animal born around November of 2001, more than four years after Canada implemented a ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban. USDA has a final rule pending that will, essentially, allow all Canadian cattle born after March of 1999 into the U.S.

But Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa said Thursday he doesn't think USDA should finalize that rule just yet. According to Harkin, that's because five of the 10 Canadian BSE cases occurred in cattle born after Canada’s feed ban took effect.

"It indicates to me that the Canadian system is just broken down," Harkin told Brownfield. "They don't have a good inspection, a good oversight system, in Canada, and therefore, we can't just be allowing their animals over 30 months of age into the U.S."

Indeed, Harkin suggested the five BSE-positive head of cattle born in Canada after the country implemented its feed ban may be just the tip of the iceberg. That, Harkin said, is reason enough for USDA to reexamine its proposed final rule.

"I mean, if there's five that we caught, how many are there that we didn't catch?" Harkin posited. "So, I'm really concerned about the USDA plans."

But Harkin stopped short of saying Congress should block USDA’s proposed rule to allow older Canadian cattle back across the border. Instead, Harkin said USDA should take action, though he was a bit vague on exactly what USDA should do.

"I want some more assurances - let me put it this way - from USDA that they are going to be tougher on Canada, and that we're going to insist that
Canada must spend the money - they have to do whatever it takes to get their system more comprehensive and responsible
," Harkin said. "They just haven't."

Such assurances may not be forthcoming. Andrea McNally, spokeswoman for USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), told Brownfield the most recent case of Canadian BSE hasn't changed the Agency's view on its proposed final rule.

"We based that proposal on a risk assessment that acknowledged that BSE is present in Canada and took into account that there may be further cases of BSE in Canada," McNally said. "And that risk assessment still found that the importation of those additional commodities would pose negligible risk to animal health or food safety in the United States."

USDA hasn’t yet set a firm date for when the rule allowing older Canadian cattle into the U.S. will be implemented. Critics of the proposed rule, including South Dakota State Veterinarian Dr. Sam Holland, have said it doesn’t provide sufficient traceability for Canadian cattle once they’re in the U.S. Supporters of USDA's rule have suggested, given all the BSE risk mitigation measures the U.S. and Canada both have in place, that a handful of additional BSE cases in either country is largely irrelevant from the perspective of animal and human health.
 
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