Tam said:
Sandhusker said:
If some of you Canucks ever got a hankering to actually find out what R-CALF said and/or advocates, all you have to do is check out the website.
From R-CALF's website Jan 2006
"The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) recommends that nations that have not yet identified any cases of BSE should test at least 187,000 cattle consecutively just to determine if they have the disease, regardless of the size of that country's cattle herd," he continued. "Canada has only tested approximately 90,000 head since the discovery of their first case of BSE in 2003, and even after discovering four confirmed cases of BSE, Canada tested only 57,000 cattle in all of 2005, an amount insufficient to meet the minimal testing requirements recommended by the OIE.
"The U.S. meets this recommendation, while Canada does not," noted Bullard. "Not only is Canada not testing the minimal number of cattle for a country not yet affected by BSE, but in addition, Canada should be testing a much greater number of cattle, given the multiple cases of BSE already identified in cattle of Canadian origin. Every other country in the world that has detected multiple cases of BSE has implemented a mandatory testing program to test every animal over 30 months of age."
Question Sandhusker where did Bill come up with the OIE recommendation of 187,000 for a country that has not yet identified any cases come from? WHAT YEAR DID THE US MEET THE 187,000 testing numbers? And where was Bill asking for increased testing in the USA?
Year U.S. numbers
1992 ---251
1993 --- 736
1994 ----692
1995 ----744
1996 --- 1,143
1997 --- 2,713
1998 --- 1,080
1999 ----1,302
2000 ----2,681
2001 ---- 5,272
2002 ---- 19,990
2003 ---- 20,543
2004 ----- 176,468
2005 You found BSE so the "not yet identified" qualification stopped.
Jan 2006 Bill Bullard made the statement so again what year did the US meet the OIE recommendation?
And has the US implemented testing everything over 30 months now that they have multiple cases of BSE? Has Bill asked for it?
Leo McDonnell said "We test
annually over 150,000 more cattle than Canada tests."
Sandhusker what
years did the US test 150,000 more cattle than Canada tested? And where has Leo asked for additional US testing?
See what you find when you have a hankering to look at the R-CALF web site. MORE LIES. and begging and pleaded for members to top up the legal fund. :wink:
hi tam,
just a few pointers with those figures of the infamous usda enhanced bse cover-up :lol:
CDC DR. PAUL BROWN TSE EXPERT COMMENTS 2006
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was quick to assure the public earlier this week that the third case of mad cow disease did not pose a risk to them, but what federal officials have not acknowledged is that this latest case indicates the deadly disease has been circulating in U.S. herds for at least a decade.
The second case, which was detected last year in a Texas cow and
which USDA officials were reluctant to verify, was approximately 12 years old.
These two cases (the latest was detected in an Alabama cow) present a picture of the disease having been here for 10 years or so, since it is thought that cows usually contract the disease from contaminated feed they consume as calves. The concern is that humans can contract a fatal, incurable, brain-wasting illness from consuming beef products contaminated with the mad cow pathogen.
"The fact the Texas cow showed up fairly clearly implied the existence of other undetected cases," Dr. Paul Brown, former medical director of the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory for Central Nervous System Studies and an expert on mad cow-like diseases, told United Press International. "
The question was, 'How many?' and we still can't answer that."
Brown, who is preparing a scientific paper based on the latest two mad cow cases to estimate the maximum number of infected cows that occurred in the United States, said
he has "absolutely no confidence in USDA tests before one year ago" because of the agency's reluctance to retest the Texas cow that initially tested positive.
USDA officials finally retested the cow and confirmed it was infected seven months later, but only at the insistence of the agency's inspector general.
"Everything they did on the Texas cow makes everything USDA did before 2005 suspect," Brown said. ...snip...end
http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060315-055557-1284r
*** Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle Still Remain
http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf
[Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf
[Docket No. 03-025IFA] FSIS Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk
Materials for Human Food and Requirement for the Disposition of
Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle
03-025IFA
03-025IFA-2
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/03-025IFA/03-025IFA-2.pdf
THE SEVEN SCIENTIST REPORT ***
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/02n0273/02n-0273-EC244-Attach-1.pdf
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