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Mike, I never claimed to be an authority on BSE but it doesn't take much common sense to figure out that the agency taxed with the responsibility of food safety in the United States is bound to know more than most at this site.

Not many of us here really know much about BSE except by what we read in the papers. The "Scientific" Journals that have all the peer reviewed studies are by subscription only and are expensive to access.

But you are giving much more credit to the USDA than they are due. When Ann was in office she put together an International Review Panel that included the best minds and researchers in the world to assess BSE in the USA after the Washington cow and here is part of what they recommended:

"The subcommittee recommends that the SRM identified below be excluded from both the human food and animal feed chains.

1-Brain and spinal cord of all cattle over 12 months of age.

2-Skull and vertbral column of cattle over 12 months of age - these are not inherently infected, but cannot be separated from dorsal root/trigeminal ganglia or from residual contamination with CNS tissue.

3-Intestine - from pylorus to anus - from all cattle."

Well, Ann disregarded this panels recommendations!

This is the agency, that you purport to be in charge of our food safety.




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