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Nine Saskatchewan farms quarantined over mad cow feed

flounder

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Nine Saskatchewan farms quarantined after mistakenly getting prohibited feed

Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, March 01, 2007

SASKATOON (CP) - Nine Saskatchewan farms and as many as 8,000 cattle, deer and other ruminants have been quarantined.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency shut down the farms after ruminant meat and bone meal was accidentally shipped to those farms from a Saskatoon feed mill.

Those materials have been banned from feed since 1997 as part of rules to protect against the spread of mad cow disease.

Two of the affected farms are in the Swift Current area, the rest around Saskatoon.

Dr. George Luterbach of the CFIA says a risk assessment is being done on the affected animals.

© The Canadian Press 2007


http://www.canada.com/topics/news/agriculture/story.html?id=542580b4-36f7-4f30-9f8c-5c05e71877a8&k=97846



CFIA Shuts Nine Saskatchewan Farms Down
March 01, 2007

A huge mistake on the agriculture front has resulted in nine Saskatchewan farms and as many as eight thousand cattle, deer, and other ruminants, being quarantined.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has shut them down, after ruminant meat and bone meal was mistakenly shipped out to those farms by a Saskatoon feed mill.

Those materials have been banned from cattle and other ruminant feed since 1997, due to the threat of mad cow disease.

The affected farms include two in the Swift Current area, the rest are around Saskatoon.

Doctor George Luterbach speaks for the C-F-I-A, he says a risk assessment on the affected animals is now taking place.

Luterbach says the feed mill had ordered "feather meal" from the rendering plant that supplies it.

"Feather meal" is not prohibited from entering cattle and ruminant feed.

Brent Pushkarenko reporting.



http://www.newstalk980.com/index.php?p=ntnews&action=view_story&id=7673


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Anonymous

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I wonder if my Congressional Delegation will be interested in this... :???:

I better send it since I just got the following e-mail from Denny asking to keep him informed after I sent him all the articles about the illegal Canadian cattle coming across the border........
In the electronic age there is a wealth of information available, but it’s seems impossible to find everything relevant pertaining to Montana. The best information I receive comes directly from constituents at home. I appreciate you taking the time to bring it to my attention.

Please don’t hesitate to contact my office with your concerns and suggestions. I value the input I get from home. Keep in touch.
 

canadian angus

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Ya I even found him on a new discussion board and he is on another of ny favourites. My son works for a feed company and he is worried it will put a black eye on all feed companies. Would think that a head or two will roll on this one.

Pity Oldtimer does read or post the misdeads in his country. Oh I forgot they don't have any issues like bribes, lies, or crooked beurocrats.

Seems there was just a case where someone was charged with entering BSE heads from young stock...........Can you imagine.

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elwapo

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Got a call this morning from one of the quarantined outfits . They were due to have their bull sale this Saturday and had to cancel because their Bulls are under lock by the CFIA. It is devastating to say the least!
 
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elwapo said:
Got a call this morning from one of the quarantined outfits . They were due to have their bull sale this Saturday and had to cancel because their Bulls are under lock by the CFIA. It is devastating to say the least!

I don't know how it operates in Canada-- but if that happened down here like that the highways would be clogged with lawyers swarming toward Swift Current and Saskatoon...Look like a flock of vultures swarming around that feedmill...
 

mwj

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Oldtimer said:
elwapo said:
Got a call this morning from one of the quarantined outfits . They were due to have their bull sale this Saturday and had to cancel because their Bulls are under lock by the CFIA. It is devastating to say the least!

I don't know how it operates in Canada-- but if that happened down here like that the highways would be clogged with lawyers swarming toward Swift Current and Saskatoon...Look like a flock of vultures swarming around that feedmill...


Why don't you post a link to the swarm of lawyers in Ga. flocking in over there feed ban slip up :wink:
 

Mrs.Greg

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mwj said:
Oldtimer said:
elwapo said:
Got a call this morning from one of the quarantined outfits . They were due to have their bull sale this Saturday and had to cancel because their Bulls are under lock by the CFIA. It is devastating to say the least!

I don't know how it operates in Canada-- but if that happened down here like that the highways would be clogged with lawyers swarming toward Swift Current and Saskatoon...Look like a flock of vultures swarming around that feedmill...


Why don't you post a link to the swarm of lawyers in Ga. flocking in over there feed ban slip up :wink:
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Anonymous

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mwj said:
Oldtimer said:
elwapo said:
Got a call this morning from one of the quarantined outfits . They were due to have their bull sale this Saturday and had to cancel because their Bulls are under lock by the CFIA. It is devastating to say the least!

I don't know how it operates in Canada-- but if that happened down here like that the highways would be clogged with lawyers swarming toward Swift Current and Saskatoon...Look like a flock of vultures swarming around that feedmill...


Why don't you post a link to the swarm of lawyers in Ga. flocking in over there feed ban slip up :wink:

No big deal down here as we don't have any proof the feedban is not working--BUT when you have 1/2 of your 10 head of positives showing up being born after the feedban like Canada which shows that feedmills and/or producers apparently didn't take the feedban serious-- now that is a different deal....
 

cowsense

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The product that was found is a mixture of edible beef byproducts and bonemeal "mistakenly" shipped out of the US. The feed plants had ordered feather meal and this product was shipped instead. It makes it a lot easier to get rid of SRM's if you can just export them to other countries instead of properly disposing of them as Canada is doing to maintain it's feed ban status. Luckily the plants found the problem early and were able to recall most of it before it was fed.
 

Mrs.Greg

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cowsense said:
The product that was found is a mixture of edible beef byproducts and bonemeal "mistakenly" shipped out of the US. The feed plants had ordered feather meal and this product was shipped instead. It makes it a lot easier to get rid of SRM's if you can just export them to other countries instead of properly disposing of them as Canada is doing to maintain it's feed ban status. Luckily the plants found the problem early and were able to recall most of it before it was fed.
shipped out of US?Mistakenly?
 

mwj

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Oldtimer said:
mwj said:
Oldtimer said:
I don't know how it operates in Canada-- but if that happened down here like that the highways would be clogged with lawyers swarming toward Swift Current and Saskatoon...Look like a flock of vultures swarming around that feedmill...


Why don't you post a link to the swarm of lawyers in Ga. flocking in over there feed ban slip up :wink:

No big deal down here as we don't have any proof the feedban is not working--BUT when you have 1/2 of your 10 head of positives showing up being born after the feedban like Canada which shows that feedmills and/or producers apparently didn't take the feedban serious-- now that is a different deal....

Good lord OT show some compasion for the poor consumers :wink: You are the one trying to save the poor misguided souls from that dangerous mislabeled beef. You should be the first one to want them to have something safe to eat besides pork :shock:
 
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mwj said:
Oldtimer said:
mwj said:
Why don't you post a link to the swarm of lawyers in Ga. flocking in over there feed ban slip up :wink:

No big deal down here as we don't have any proof the feedban is not working--BUT when you have 1/2 of your 10 head of positives showing up being born after the feedban like Canada which shows that feedmills and/or producers apparently didn't take the feedban serious-- now that is a different deal....

Good lord OT show some compasion for the poor consumers :wink: You are the one trying to save the poor misguided souls from that dangerous mislabeled beef. You should be the first one to want them to have something safe to eat besides pork :shock:

Show me proof that the US feedban/firewalls hasn't worked...Show me proof that there has ever been a POST feedban infected cow in the US...If you don't have the "infected" MBM going into the feed the cycle eventually ends

But now Canada has absolute proof that in at least 5 cases the feedban did not work (Only God knows how many more violations) and in at least 5 incidences the cattle were infected ( again God only knows how many infected cattle were never found), slaughtered, and the cycle continued...The reason Canada continues to find infected animals and animals as young as 4 years old :roll: And the reason the USDA says Canada will continue to have a problem for 20 years... :shock: :roll:
 

mwj

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Oldtimer said:
mwj said:
Oldtimer said:
No big deal down here as we don't have any proof the feedban is not working--BUT when you have 1/2 of your 10 head of positives showing up being born after the feedban like Canada which shows that feedmills and/or producers apparently didn't take the feedban serious-- now that is a different deal....

Good lord OT show some compasion for the poor consumers :wink: You are the one trying to save the poor misguided souls from that dangerous mislabeled beef. You should be the first one to want them to have something safe to eat besides pork :shock:

Show me proof that the US feedban/firewalls hasn't worked...Show me proof that there has ever been a POST feedban infected cow in the US...If you don't have the "infected" MBM going into the feed the cycle eventually ends

But now Canada has absolute proof that in at least 5 cases the feedban did not work (Only God knows how many more violations) and in at least 5 incidences the cattle were infected ( again God only knows how many infected cattle were never found), slaughtered, and the cycle continued...The reason Canada continues to find infected animals and animals as young as 4 years old :roll: And the reason the USDA says Canada will continue to have a problem for 20 years... :shock: :roll:


OT no body in there right mind could make a claim of our feed ban working while on the topic that there was a 25 ton feed ban ''woop's'' in the state of Ga. :roll: I guess if the rest of the world would quit testing for BSE it will just vanish! I guess with your reasoning there are not many problems that can't be ignored :wink:
 

Kato

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cowsense said:
The product that was found is a mixture of edible beef byproducts and bonemeal "mistakenly" shipped out of the US. The feed plants had ordered feather meal and this product was shipped instead. It makes it a lot easier to get rid of SRM's if you can just export them to other countries instead of properly disposing of them as Canada is doing to maintain it's feed ban status. Luckily the plants found the problem early and were able to recall most of it before it was fed.

:!: :!: :!: That's worth a repeat posting.

Here's what the CFIA has to say


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CFIA RESPONDS TO CONTAMINATED FEED
OTTAWA, March 2, 2007 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has placed precautionary movement restrictions on cattle from nine farms in Saskatchewan because they received feed that did not meet Canada’s current feed ban requirements. There is no food safety risk associated with meat and other products from the exposed animals.

The contamination occurred when misidentified ruminant meat and bone meal was distributed from a processor to feed mills. The meat and bone meal was subsequently included as an ingredient in certain ruminant animal feeds, which is not permitted under Canada’s feed ban. The CFIA was notified by the processor and mills once the error was detected and immediately initiated an investigation.

All of the contaminated feed has been recalled and the CFIA has verified that all receiving farms have been properly cleaned. Preliminary findings of a science-based assessment indicate that the risk to animal health is, at most, very low. No exposed animals or their products were exported.

A complete investigation is underway to fully examine the situation and verify that the processor takes corrective measures. The CFIA will consider enforcement actions once the investigation concludes.

The CFIA is working with industry to activate the tracking mechanism, based on Canada's traceability system, which will replace the current movement restrictions.

The CFIA is committed to ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of Canada’s feed ban. Domestic and international audits, supported by regular inspection activities, demonstrate very high levels of industry compliance with the ban. However, feed system controls are inherently complex and subject to human error. Enhancements to the feed ban, which come into effect in July 2007, will address potential opportunities for inadvertent contamination by removing more than 99% of potential BSE infectivity from the animal feed system.

All affected producers acted in full accordance with the feed ban, believing they were using feed intended for cattle and other ruminant animals. All involved stakeholders, including producers, continue to be very cooperative with the CFIA.

So they will prosecute. It will be interesting to see who they prosecute.

These new enhancements are pretty draconian. Permits will be needed just to transport SRM's, among other things. They will also be not allowed in any feed of any kind.

Could our neighbours to the south handle that? They can't even agree on ID. For that matter, could they have found all the farms so quickly?

Before eveyone jumps on the 99% comment, you won't ever get any government agency anywhere to use the words "all", or 100 percent of anything. It's just the way they do things.
 

flounder

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cowsense said:
The product that was found is a mixture of edible beef byproducts and bonemeal "mistakenly" shipped out of the US. The feed plants had ordered feather meal and this product was shipped instead. It makes it a lot easier to get rid of SRM's if you can just export them to other countries instead of properly disposing of them as Canada is doing to maintain it's feed ban status. Luckily the plants found the problem early and were able to recall most of it before it was fed.
 
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