Sandhusker said:Silver said:Sandhusker said:"Maliciously misinforming" my fat arse. From the CFIA (the "C" is for "Canada") website;
No validated live animal test for BSE currently exists. Accordingly, testing for BSE can only be done on the brains of dead animals. Brain samples are screened using rapid tests that accurately and quickly detect a true BSE positive sample nearly 100% of the time. Rapid tests can, in rare cases, react when a sample is not infected with BSE. These are known as "inconclusive" results.
All samples that yield inconclusive results using a rapid test are sent to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg - Canada's national BSE reference laboratory - for confirmatory testing. There they are tested using either the immunohistochemistry (IHC), or in the case of poor quality samples and IHC negative suspect tests, the SAF immunoblot, both internationally recognized confirmatory test for BSE.
Looks to me that you're the one who is misinformed or maliciously misinforming. There's no flippin difference. The comparisons are fair.
Now carefully read what you wrote (copied). Then read it again. If you are careful and think about it you will see the CFIA uses 2 tests, including the western blot (SAF).
If you do your research you will find the USDA didn't do this until mid 2005. :roll:
Maybe you should read it again. Rapid test first, then the IHC on inconclusives - NOT the blot as you claimed.
Your post, "I believe the test used in Canada following an inconclusive was the Western Blot Test, the USDA used the unfortunately named 'Gold Standard'."
How thick is you r-calf corrupted head Sandhusker? READ IT AGAIN! If the IHC on inconclusives still comes up as inconclusive (negative suspect), the BLOT IS USED.
[/b] THE USDA DID NOT DO THIS UNTIL 2005!!!!