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USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action

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Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)
Date: May 29, 2007 at 12:38 pm PST

US to Meatpackers: Don't Do Mad Cow Test

MATT APUZZO
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep
meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for
the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But
Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its
meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive
test, too.

A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling
was to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it
would appeal , effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge
plays out.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than
150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain.

There have been three cases of mad cow disease in the U.S. The first, in
December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from
Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a Texas-born cow. The third was
confirmed last year in an Alabama cow.

The Agriculture Department argued that widespread testing could lead to a
false positive that would harm the meat industry. U.S. District Judge James
Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government
relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it.


http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/health/7730482.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)



May 27, 2007

Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250


CC


Honorable Judge James Robertson
U.S. District Court
333 Constitution Ave. North West
Washington, D. C. 20001

Subject: Request to let the Creekstone vs. USDA court decision stand.

Ref: Letter from United States Animal Health Association, dated May 22,
2007

Dear Mr. Secretary et al :

I am requesting that you allow the court decision in the Creekstone vs.
USDA to stand so that Creekstone may begin testing the beef they process
for BSE and or BASE and or any other TSE phenotype there of. WE must let
them test since the USDA et al refuse to do so properly. This is not to say
that there should be no strict TSE testing protocols. IF testing is to take
place
privately, there must be strict TSE testing protocol to assure the most up
to date,
sensitive, and validated tests are used, and used properly. These tests must
be
announced to the public in a timely manner at every step of the way,
validated and
confirmed by the federal government, Weybridge, and an independent third
party consumer
organization and there TSE expert of choice, in my opinion.

My mother died from a exceedingly rare strain of sporadic CJD i.e. the
Heidenhain Variant of CJD. My neighbors mother also lost his mother to a
form of
sporadic CJD exactly one year previously from the day my mother died. BOTH
cases were
confirmed by autopsy. There is new data out about the BASE atypical BSE,
which
pathologically is more related to a phenotype of sporadic CJD, than the
nvCJD in humans from
the UK. To continue to ignore these scientific findings with the old
UKBSEnvCJD only
theory is not justified by science anymore. It is not logical.

The logic behind the reasons not to let test for TSE in the USA because of
The Virus Serum Toxin Act of 1913 and or because of the recent letter from
the USAHA (see
letter below) bring forth, are totally bogus. NO one could screw the testing
up any worse than the USDA
has done in the past. The OIG and the GAO has shown this time and time
again. The 2004 Enhanced
BSE surveillance program where some 275,000+ cattle were tested for BSE was
proven to be
terribly flawed from the beginning. This documented time and time again.
Even Paul Brown, known and
respected TSE scientist, former TSE expert for the CDC said he had
''absolutely no confidence in USDA
tests before one year ago'', and this was on March 15, 2006 ;

"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

CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt ...
Dr. Paul Brown is Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Central
Nervous System ... Address for correspondence: Paul Brown, Building 36, Room
4A-05, ...


http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm

PAUL BROWN COMMENT TO ME ON THIS ISSUE

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:10 AM


"Actually, Terry, I have been critical of the USDA handling of the mad cow
issue for some years,
and with Linda Detwiler and others sent lengthy detailed critiques and
recommendations to both the
USDA and the Canadian Food Agency."


OR, what the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG found ;


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf


Mr. Johanns, The August 4, 1997 FDA BSE ruminant to ruminant feed ban was
nothing more than ink on paper.
In 2007 alone, 10 MILLION plus pounds of banned blood laced MBM has already
gone out into commerce
for the feeding of banned product to cattle. yes, were still feeding cows
banned BSE/BASE product
in 2007, almost 10 years after the voluntary ban was put in place. guess
what, it aint working.

YOU and this Administration have failed terribly in protecting not only the
consumer, but your precious
commodity that you speak so highly of i.e. the beef industry. In your
continued efforts to cover up the real
mad cow problem in the USA, you have in fact only amplified it and continued
it's spread, and in doing so,
you have needlessly exposed millions to the TSE agent, from many different
proven routes and sources. The
only saving grace you have is the incubation period has been on your side.
It will catch up. When it does, when
the people finally figure all this out, when some of the millions you have
needlessly exposed to this agent become
clinical in the future, rest assured I will stand in line to see that you
and your administration are convicted for murder.
What you and this administration have done over the past 8 years is
criminal, in my opinion.
I have watched not only you, but the Bush administration thumb there nose to
science for almost 8 years, all to
protect the beef industry. The science was there, but you chose to ignore
it, and even manipulated science with the
bogus BSE MRR policy, all the while your were implementing that, you were
covering up another mad cow in Texas.
But thanks to the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG, and an act of Congress,
that mad cow was finally proven positive,
unlike the other stumbling and staggering mad cow that was rendered without
any test at all in Texas, but by then you
had succeeded in the BSE MRR policy, the legal trading of all strains of TSE
globally. You and this administration have
done the same thing the UK did when they poisoned the globe with there
exporting of BSE, except you made it legal
now with the BSE MRR policy, and now we are dealing with BASE, a strain that
is more virulent to humans.
what happens when it mutates again? when cwd deer and elk and there
different phenotypes have all been rendered
into feed, along with scrapie infected sheep in the USA, and a few TME to
top that off, it will be a most interesting
recipe will it not, and an interesting case study for humans for decades to
come. sadly though, with the recent pet food
scandal, and the deaths there of, we have learned a few things. one, that
the elderly are expendable, but cats, dogs, and
adolescents are not. and that the problem of our feeding of food producing
animals has been tainted for decades. and with
the melamine scandal, as with the mad cow feed scandal, it's the same old
song and dance by you and the Bush administration,
everything is o.k., will not hurt you, cover-up and protect the industry at
all cost, and this will be another part of your sad legacy
in History Sir.

To not allow BSE/TSE testing in the USA, testing that will find, only proves
our point, you have and will continue to cover up
the real mad cow problem in the USA. and the world knows this. ...

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77519

UNITED STATES ANIMAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
8100 Three Chopt Road, Suite 203
P. O. BOX K227
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23288
804- 285-3210 FAX 804-285-3367
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.usaha.org

May 22, 2007
Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), wishes to express its
encouragement to you and the Department of Agriculture to appeal the
litigation surrounding private testing for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
We hope
you will strongly consider this as you work with the Office of General
Counsel
on this suit.

To support this appeal, we offer that this sets a detrimental precedence on
USDA’s ability to regulate disease and testing processes in animal
agriculture. As
we appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit of Creekstone, the larger scale
implications could lead to devastating impacts for food animal production in
this country
as itrelates to animal health. We do feel that private testing could hamper
animal health officials’ ability to locate disease occurrences, and exercise
proper
practices to trace, control and eliminate them. As you are aware, there are
a number
of factors that raise concern among animal health leaders and
diagnosticians.
We encourage you to thoroughly consider those upon your decision to appeal.
We do recognize this is now a matter of the courts, and trust that our
ability to safeguard animal health is not compromised as a result of this
litigation.
Please let us know if there is any further support we can provide.

Sincerely,

Lee M. Myers
President, U.S. Animal Health Association
Cc: Dr. John Clifford

===============================


USA MAD COW STRAIN MORE VIRULENT TO HUMANS THAN UK STRAIN

18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.


snip...

64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.

Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.


snip...

http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf


3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse

Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
Reserve
University

Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.

***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***


6:30 Close of Day One


http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp

Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL


BMJ


vCJD in the USA * BSE in U.S.
15 November 1999


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#5406


BMJ


U.S. Scientist should be concerned with a CJD epidemic in the U.S., as
well...
2 January 2000


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#6117

JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

MARCH 26, 2003

RE-Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease in the United States

Email Terry S. Singeltary:

[email protected]

I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to

comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging

forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE

transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate

phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest

sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable

nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every

state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to

expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are

sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in

the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and

CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by

intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other

TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every

victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this

agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose

others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there

should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena

from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic

CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535


doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00715-1
Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Newsdesk

Tracking spongiform encephalopathies in North America

Xavier Bosch

Available online 29 July 2003.


Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2003, Page 463


“My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my
mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD)
and have been searching for answers ever since. What I have found is that we
have not been told the truth. CWD
in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem.”
............................


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309903007151/fulltext

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/1473-3099/PIIS1473309903007151.pdf

SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...


http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/resources-casereport.html

There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.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


Sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease in two adolescents (sCJD, the big lie)
Date: May 28, 2007 at 7:58 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=25276


IN A NUT SHELL ;

(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries.
The OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease
status based on
inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that
were not promptly reported to then Central Bureau............

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf

Report to Congressional Requesters:

February 2005:

Mad Cow Disease:

FDA's Management of the Feed Ban Has Improved, but Oversight Weaknesses
Continue to Limit Program Effectiveness:

[Hyperlink, http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-101]:

http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05101.html

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05101high.pdf


January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and
Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts GAO-02-183


http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

OIE BSE RECOMMENDATION FOR USA, bought and paid for by your local cattle
dealers i.e. USDA

Date: May 14, 2007 at 9:00 am PST


http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18748

What Do We Feed to Food-Production Animals? A Review of Animal Feed
Ingredients and Their Potential Impacts on Human Health

Date: May 24, 2007 at 6:59 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=22301

The Economic Impact of B.S.E. on the U.S. Beef Industry: BY NOT TESTING TO
FIND

Date: May 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4687

SCRAPIE UPDATE USA AS OF MARCH 2007 NOR98 INCLUDED

Date: May 9, 2007 at 6:43 pm PST


http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=6721

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=8315

LIKE LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=11598

Scrapie Agent (Strain 263K) Can Transmit Disease via the ORAL Route after
Persistence in Soil over Years

Date: May 16, 2007 at 10:01 am PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=15481

Colorado Surveillance Program for Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission to
Humans (TWO SUSPECT CASES)

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:22:22 -0500


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=1165

Subject: Re: FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP

Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:37 PM


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=816

EXPORTATION AND IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS:
BSE; MRR AND IMPORTATION OF COMMODITIES, 65758-65759 [E6-19042]

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3854


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3381


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=498


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=10277


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=9972


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4492


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2583


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2470

HUMAN and ANIMAL TSE Classifications i.e. mad cow disease and the UKBSEnvCJD
only theory


TSEs have been rampant in the USA for decades in many species, and they all
have been rendered and fed back
to animals for human/animal consumption. I propose that the current
diagnostic criteria for human TSEs only
enhances and helps the spreading of human TSE from the continued belief of
the UKBSEnvCJD only theory in 2005.
With all the science to date refuting it, to continue to validate this myth,
will only spread this TSE agent
through a multitude of potential routes and sources i.e. consumption,
surgical, blood, medical, cosmetics
etc. I propose as with Aguzzi, Asante, Collinge, Caughey, Deslys, Dormont,
Gibbs, Ironside, Manuelidis,
Marsh, et al and many more, that the world of TSE Tranmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy is far from an
exact science, but there is enough proven science to date that this myth
should be put to rest once and for
all, and that we move forward with a new classification for human and animal
TSE that would properly identify
the infected species, the source species, and then the route. This would
further have to be broken down to
strain of species and then the route of transmission would further have to
be broken down. Accumulation and
Transmission are key to the threshold from subclinical to clinical disease,
and of that, I even believe that
physical and or blunt trauma may play a role of onset of clinical symptoms
in some cases, but key to all
this, is to stop the amplification and transmission of this agent, the
spreading of, no matter what strain.
BUT, to continue with this myth that the U.K. strain of BSE one strain in
cows, and the nv/v CJD, one strain in
humans, and that all the rest of human TSE is one single strain i.e.
sporadic CJD (when to date there are
6 different phenotypes of sCJD), and that no other animal TSE transmits to
humans, to continue with this
masquerade will only continue to spread, expose, and kill, who knows how
many more in the years and decades
to come. ONE was enough for me, My Mom, hvCJD, DOD 12/14/97 confirmed, which
is nothing more than another
mans name added to CJD, like CJD itself, Jakob and Creutzfeldt, or
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker
syndrome, just another CJD or human TSE, named after another human. WE are
only kidding ourselves with the
current diagnostic criteria for human and animal TSE, especially
differentiating between the nvCJD vs the
sporadic CJD strains and then the GSS strains and also the FFI fatal
familial insomnia strains or the ones
that mimics one or the other of those TSE? Tissue infectivity and strain
typing of the many variants of
the human and animal TSEs are paramount in all variants of all TSE. There
must be a proper classification that
will differentiate between all these human TSE in order to do this. With the
CDI and other more sensitive
testing coming about, I only hope that my proposal will some day be taken
seriously.

My name is Terry S. Singeltary Sr. and I am no scientist, no doctor and have
no PhDs, but have been
independently researching human and animal TSEs since the death of my Mother
to the Heidenhain Variant of
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease on December 14, 1997 'confirmed'. ...TSS


UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CREEKSTONE FARMS PREMIUM BEEF,
L.L.C.,
Plaintiff,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
et al.,
Defendants.
:::::::::::
Civil Action No. 06-0544 (JR)


snip...


JAMES ROBERTSON
United States District Judge


The government’s additional argument, that private testing 14
somehow would interfere with USDA’s surveillance program, is
unexplained and therefore rejected.
Of greater concern is the possibility that private testing 15
could produce a false positive result, which might trigger
unnecessary public alarm. USDA has asserted this possibility as
a reason to avoid private testing. Indeed, the Bio-Rad kits that
Creekstone proposes using are used throughout the world,
including as part of the USDA’s own surveillance testing.
- 18 -


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv0544-22



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
"Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too."

"Expensive"? We've lost $5 BILLION so far and the meter is will be running for years because the USDA won't allow a $20 test? Exactly what the hell is expensive? :shock: :mad:

I'm so dang dismayed, disgusted, infuriated, with those sold-out bastards in the USDA that I can hardly see straight right now. This is nothing but doing the bidding of the big boys - earning those "contributions". I've got to step outside for a while........
 
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Sandhusker said:
"Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too."

"Expensive"? We've lost $5 BILLION so far and the meter is will be running for years because the USDA won't allow a $20 test? Exactly what the hell is expensive? :shock: :mad:

I'm so dang dismayed, disgusted, infuriated, with those sold-out bastards in the USDA that I can hardly see straight right now. This is nothing but doing the bidding of the big boys - earning those "contributions". I've got to step outside for a while........

Yep and using taxpayer dollars to pay the court costs to stall this out for the big boys-- all the while keeping the same taxpayer/ worldwide consumers from having an informed choice or complete knowledge of the product they are buying..... :mad: :mad:
 

EJ

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
"Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too."

"Expensive"? We've lost $5 BILLION so far and the meter is will be running for years because the USDA won't allow a $20 test? Exactly what the hell is expensive? :shock: :mad:

I'm so dang dismayed, disgusted, infuriated, with those sold-out bastards in the USDA that I can hardly see straight right now. This is nothing but doing the bidding of the big boys - earning those "contributions". I've got to step outside for a while........

Ditto Sandhusker and Old Timer. They are and appear to have assumed the role of bungleing IDIOTS. Not being able to use common sense is the least of there screw up moves
 
A

Anonymous

Guest
U.S. District Judge James Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it

USDA and the current Administration haven't let little things like laws/rules/ the constitution stand in their way of giving the Corporate World whatever they wanted so far...Why should they start now :???: :( :mad:
 

PORKER

Well-known member
With the above comments it sounds like ONE FOOD INSPECTION agency is needed with USDA AND FDA Combined under HHS.
 

flounder

Well-known member
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
Date: September 4, 2007 at 9:47 am PST


USDA


AUGUST 21, 2007


Mr. Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Post Office Box 42
Bacliff, Texas 77518-0042


Dear Mr. Singeltary:


This is in response to your e-mails to Secretary Johanns concerning private
testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and a ruling by the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia involving Creekstone Farms
Premium Beef, LLC. We regret the delay in responding.


As you may know, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) filed an appeal
of the U.S. District Court's order on June 15,2007. While we recognize your
views, we cannot comment on any matters at issue in the pending litigation.
However, we can assure you that USDA remains committed to ensuring
effective, scientifically sound testing for significant animal diseases and
to protecting U.S. animal and public health from BSE.


We understand that the effects of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are
devastating, and we are sorry to learn of the loss of your mother. Some of
us at
USDA have also lost family members to CJD and other degenerative
neurological
diseases. Although it is rare, the classical form of CJD does occur
sporadically in the
United States and worldwide. However, no cases of vCJD-the form of BSE that
can be
transmitted from animals to humans-are known to have originated in the
United States. Because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services'
(HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for
addressing concerns about CJD and other human health issues, you may wish to
contact that agency directly. The address is CDC, HHS, 200 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, D.C. 20201.


We also wish to clarify that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 1997
ban on ruminant-to-ruminant feeding is the primary measure in place to
protect animal health with regard to BSE. Protection of public health from
BSE is achieved by the removal from the human food supply of the animal
tissues-often referred to as specified risk


Mr. Terry S. Singeltary, Sr. Page 2


materials-in which the BSE infective agent would be found if present, and by
other controls imposed at the slaughter level. These additional controls
include the Food Safety and Inspection Services' ban on nonambulatory cattle
from the human food chain; a prohibition on air-injection stunning of
slaughter cattle; the requirement of additional process controls in advanced
meat recovery systems; and, a prohibition on the use of mechanically
separated beef in human food. Additionally, protection from BSE and other
diseases is achieved by conducting antemortem inspections of slaughter
cattle and excluding any animals that display clinical signs of neurological
disease or other abnormalities.


We appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. To learn more about
USDA's BSE surveillance and safeguarding activities, please visit our Web
site at www.aphis.usda.gov/newsroom/hot_issues/bse/index.shtml.


Sincerely,

Jere L. Dick
Associate Deputy Administrator
National Animal Health Policy and Programs Veterinary Services


============================END=========================


Greetings,

LIKE going back in time 25 to 30 years with the science in this reply to me
from USDA on BSE.

I would kindly like to comment;


Jere L. Dick states ;


> Some of us at USDA have also lost family members to CJD

> Although it is rare, the classical form of CJD does occur sporadically in
the United States and worldwide


THIS is very disturbing to me that even USDA officials family members are
dying of sporadic CJD, but yet they refuse to acknowledge the science to
date, instead to go by prehistoric science dating back some 3 decades. IN
short, there is much more to this sad story than that of the UKBSEnvCJD ONLY
hypothesis/myth. Evidently, USDA did not even read the most up to date
science i submitted to them, or just chose to ignore it. we now know that
the sporadic CJD may not be as sporadic or spontaneous as these officials
would have us to believe. THE USA has had two cases of atypical BSE i.e.
BASE, which is more similar to some sporadic CJD, than that of the nvCJD,
plus, there are some questions pertaining to the potential of some of these
sCJD case being tied to either CWD in deer and or elk, and to the scrapie in
sheep and goats, and there's other science showing that friendly fire from
these sources i.e. iCJD is a very real threat. ...tss


Jere L. Dick states ;


> Protection of public health from BSE is achieved by the removal from the
human food supply of the animal

> tissues-often referred to as specified risk materials-in which the BSE
infective agent would be found if present,

> and by other controls imposed at the slaughter level.


EXACTLY, and this policy has failed terribly, see recalls of 1,000's of TONS
of these banned products that is suppose to protect us from all strains of
mad cow disease, that are being fed out in commerce as we speak ;


FDA CERTIFIED MAD COW PROTEIN IN COMMERECE 2006


10,000,000+ LBS. of PROHIBITED BANNED MAD COW FEED I.E. MBM IN COMMERCE USA
2007


Date: March 21, 2007 at 2:27 pm PST
RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY MEDICINES -- CLASS II
___________________________________
PRODUCT
Bulk cattle feed made with recalled Darling’s 85% Blood Meal, Flash Dried,
Recall # V-024-2007
CODE
Cattle feed delivered between 01/12/2007 and 01/26/2007
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Pfeiffer, Arno, Inc, Greenbush, WI. by conversation on February 5, 2007.
Firm initiated recall is ongoing.
REASON
Blood meal used to make cattle feed was recalled because it was
cross-contaminated with prohibited bovine meat and bone meal that had been
manufactured on common equipment and labeling did not bear cautionary BSE
statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
42,090 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
WI

___________________________________
PRODUCT
Custom dairy premix products: MNM ALL PURPOSE Pellet, HILLSIDE/CDL
Prot-Buffer Meal, LEE, M.-CLOSE UP PX Pellet, HIGH DESERT/ GHC LACT Meal,
TATARKA, M CUST PROT Meal, SUNRIDGE/CDL PROTEIN Blend, LOURENZO, K PVM DAIRY
Meal, DOUBLE B DAIRY/GHC LAC Mineral, WEST PIONT/GHC CLOSEUP Mineral, WEST
POINT/GHC LACT Meal, JENKS, J/COMPASS PROTEIN Meal, COPPINI – 8# SPECIAL
DAIRY Mix, GULICK, L-LACT Meal (Bulk), TRIPLE J – PROTEIN/LACTATION, ROCK
CREEK/GHC MILK Mineral, BETTENCOURT/GHC S.SIDE MK-MN, BETTENCOURT #1/GHC
MILK MINR, V&C DAIRY/GHC LACT Meal, VEENSTRA, F/GHC LACT Meal, SMUTNY,
A-BYPASS ML W/SMARTA, Recall # V-025-2007
CODE
The firm does not utilize a code - only shipping documentation with
commodity and weights identified.
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Rangen, Inc, Buhl, ID, by letters on February 13 and 14, 2007. Firm
initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Products manufactured from bulk feed containing blood meal that was cross
contaminated with prohibited meat and bone meal and the labeling did not
bear cautionary BSE statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
9,997,976 lbs.
DISTRIBUTION
ID and NV

END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR MARCH 21, 2007


http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/enforce/2007/ENF00996.html


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=20055


FDA CERTIFIED MAD COW PROTEIN IN COMMERECE 2006

Subject: MAD COW FEED RECALL USA SEPT 6, 2006 1961.72 TONS IN COMMERCE
AL,TN, AND WV

Date: September 6, 2006 at 7:58 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=sanet-mg&D=1&P=7860


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611&L=sanet-mg&P=3715


http://www.microbes.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=373


Subject: USDA FSIS SRM TSE QUARTERLY ENFORCEMENT REPORT UPDATE
Date: February 17, 2007 at 7:03 pm PST
Greetings,


I thought I might update you on the USDA FSIS QUARTERLY REPORTS ON THE TOPIC
OF SRMs and MAD COW DISEASE I.E. BSE/BASE ETC.


see laundry list of SRM violations ;

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=sanet-mg&P=10713


Subject: USDA OIG SEMIANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS FY 2007 1st Half (bogus BSE
sampling FROM HEALTHY USDA CATTLE)
Date: June 21, 2007 at 2:49 pm PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0706&L=sanet-mg&T=0&F=&S=&P=9430


18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.


snip...


64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.

Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.


snip...


http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf



3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse

Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
Reserve
University

Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.

***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***


6:30 Close of Day One


http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp


SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...


http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/resources-casereport.html


There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.pdf


Jere L. Dick states ;

> and Inspection Services' ban on nonambulatory cattle from the human food
chain;


Subject: FINAL REGULATIONS FOR NON-AMBULATORY DISABLED CATTLE AND SPECIFIED
RISK MATERIALS (SRMs)
Date: August 31, 2007 at 9:21 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&F=&S=&P=27862


ALL in all, the USDA's response to my submission on USDA VS CREEKSTONE, is
simply not acceptable, and is true to the nature of the Industry's grip on
Washington and the USDA, God save the Industry at all cost, including human
health, mentality. ...TSS


SEE MY SUBMISSION TO USDA IN FULL ;


USDA Fights Court Decision
Approving BSE Tests
From Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
[email protected]
5-30-7

To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected] [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)


SEE FULL TEXT ;


http://www.vegsource.com/talk/madcow/messages/1001404.html

http://www.bloodindex.com/view_news_zone.php?id=610&heading=USDA%20VS%20CREEKSTONE%20BSE/BASE/TSE%20TESTING%20Civil%20Action%20No.%2006-0544%20(JR)

http://www.microbes.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=417

http://www.microbes.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=418&pid=532&st=0&#entry532

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0707&L=sanet-mg&P=29337

https://lists.aegee.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0705&L=BSE-L&T=0&F=&S=&X=34D6D460631211D4A1&Y=flounder9%40verizon.net&P=6485


CWD UPDATE 88 AUGUST 31, 2007


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0709&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=450


Subject: Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
creates a new prion strain

Date: August 25, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=21267


Subject: MAD COW BASE H-TYPE AND L-TYPE

Date: August 23, 2007 at 11:30 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=19779



From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: TWO MORE Nor98 atypical Scrapie cases detected in USA bringing
total to 3 cases to date


Infected and Source Flocks

As of June 30, 2007, there were .....

snip...

One field case and one validation case were consistent with Nor-98 scrapie.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps


IN the February 2007 Scrapie report it only mentions ;

''One case was consistent with Nor98 scrapie.''

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/


(please note flocks of origin were in WY, CO, AND CA. PERSONAL COMMUNCATIONS
USDA, APHIS, VS ET AL. ...TSS)


NOR98 SHOWS MOLECULAR FEATURES REMINISCENT OF GSS


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=14553


An evaluation of scrapie surveillance in the United States


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3427


FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=10451


SEAC New forms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1 August 2007
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:09:38 -0500


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3573


POTENTIAL MAD CAT ESCAPES LAB IN USA

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=7062


Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518





flounder said:
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)
Date: May 29, 2007 at 12:38 pm PST

US to Meatpackers: Don't Do Mad Cow Test

MATT APUZZO
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep
meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for
the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But
Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its
meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive
test, too.

A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling
was to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it
would appeal , effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge
plays out.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than
150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain.

There have been three cases of mad cow disease in the U.S. The first, in
December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from
Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a Texas-born cow. The third was
confirmed last year in an Alabama cow.

The Agriculture Department argued that widespread testing could lead to a
false positive that would harm the meat industry. U.S. District Judge James
Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government
relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it.


http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/health/7730482.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)



May 27, 2007

Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250


CC


Honorable Judge James Robertson
U.S. District Court
333 Constitution Ave. North West
Washington, D. C. 20001

Subject: Request to let the Creekstone vs. USDA court decision stand.

Ref: Letter from United States Animal Health Association, dated May 22,
2007

Dear Mr. Secretary et al :

I am requesting that you allow the court decision in the Creekstone vs.
USDA to stand so that Creekstone may begin testing the beef they process
for BSE and or BASE and or any other TSE phenotype there of. WE must let
them test since the USDA et al refuse to do so properly. This is not to say
that there should be no strict TSE testing protocols. IF testing is to take
place
privately, there must be strict TSE testing protocol to assure the most up
to date,
sensitive, and validated tests are used, and used properly. These tests must
be
announced to the public in a timely manner at every step of the way,
validated and
confirmed by the federal government, Weybridge, and an independent third
party consumer
organization and there TSE expert of choice, in my opinion.

My mother died from a exceedingly rare strain of sporadic CJD i.e. the
Heidenhain Variant of CJD. My neighbors mother also lost his mother to a
form of
sporadic CJD exactly one year previously from the day my mother died. BOTH
cases were
confirmed by autopsy. There is new data out about the BASE atypical BSE,
which
pathologically is more related to a phenotype of sporadic CJD, than the
nvCJD in humans from
the UK. To continue to ignore these scientific findings with the old
UKBSEnvCJD only
theory is not justified by science anymore. It is not logical.

The logic behind the reasons not to let test for TSE in the USA because of
The Virus Serum Toxin Act of 1913 and or because of the recent letter from
the USAHA (see
letter below) bring forth, are totally bogus. NO one could screw the testing
up any worse than the USDA
has done in the past. The OIG and the GAO has shown this time and time
again. The 2004 Enhanced
BSE surveillance program where some 275,000+ cattle were tested for BSE was
proven to be
terribly flawed from the beginning. This documented time and time again.
Even Paul Brown, known and
respected TSE scientist, former TSE expert for the CDC said he had
''absolutely no confidence in USDA
tests before one year ago'', and this was on March 15, 2006 ;

"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

CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt ...
Dr. Paul Brown is Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Central
Nervous System ... Address for correspondence: Paul Brown, Building 36, Room
4A-05, ...


http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm

PAUL BROWN COMMENT TO ME ON THIS ISSUE

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:10 AM


"Actually, Terry, I have been critical of the USDA handling of the mad cow
issue for some years,
and with Linda Detwiler and others sent lengthy detailed critiques and
recommendations to both the
USDA and the Canadian Food Agency."


OR, what the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG found ;


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf


Mr. Johanns, The August 4, 1997 FDA BSE ruminant to ruminant feed ban was
nothing more than ink on paper.
In 2007 alone, 10 MILLION plus pounds of banned blood laced MBM has already
gone out into commerce
for the feeding of banned product to cattle. yes, were still feeding cows
banned BSE/BASE product
in 2007, almost 10 years after the voluntary ban was put in place. guess
what, it aint working.

YOU and this Administration have failed terribly in protecting not only the
consumer, but your precious
commodity that you speak so highly of i.e. the beef industry. In your
continued efforts to cover up the real
mad cow problem in the USA, you have in fact only amplified it and continued
it's spread, and in doing so,
you have needlessly exposed millions to the TSE agent, from many different
proven routes and sources. The
only saving grace you have is the incubation period has been on your side.
It will catch up. When it does, when
the people finally figure all this out, when some of the millions you have
needlessly exposed to this agent become
clinical in the future, rest assured I will stand in line to see that you
and your administration are convicted for murder.
What you and this administration have done over the past 8 years is
criminal, in my opinion.
I have watched not only you, but the Bush administration thumb there nose to
science for almost 8 years, all to
protect the beef industry. The science was there, but you chose to ignore
it, and even manipulated science with the
bogus BSE MRR policy, all the while your were implementing that, you were
covering up another mad cow in Texas.
But thanks to the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG, and an act of Congress,
that mad cow was finally proven positive,
unlike the other stumbling and staggering mad cow that was rendered without
any test at all in Texas, but by then you
had succeeded in the BSE MRR policy, the legal trading of all strains of TSE
globally. You and this administration have
done the same thing the UK did when they poisoned the globe with there
exporting of BSE, except you made it legal
now with the BSE MRR policy, and now we are dealing with BASE, a strain that
is more virulent to humans.
what happens when it mutates again? when cwd deer and elk and there
different phenotypes have all been rendered
into feed, along with scrapie infected sheep in the USA, and a few TME to
top that off, it will be a most interesting
recipe will it not, and an interesting case study for humans for decades to
come. sadly though, with the recent pet food
scandal, and the deaths there of, we have learned a few things. one, that
the elderly are expendable, but cats, dogs, and
adolescents are not. and that the problem of our feeding of food producing
animals has been tainted for decades. and with
the melamine scandal, as with the mad cow feed scandal, it's the same old
song and dance by you and the Bush administration,
everything is o.k., will not hurt you, cover-up and protect the industry at
all cost, and this will be another part of your sad legacy
in History Sir.

To not allow BSE/TSE testing in the USA, testing that will find, only proves
our point, you have and will continue to cover up
the real mad cow problem in the USA. and the world knows this. ...

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77519

UNITED STATES ANIMAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
8100 Three Chopt Road, Suite 203
P. O. BOX K227
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23288
804- 285-3210 FAX 804-285-3367
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.usaha.org

May 22, 2007
Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), wishes to express its
encouragement to you and the Department of Agriculture to appeal the
litigation surrounding private testing for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
We hope
you will strongly consider this as you work with the Office of General
Counsel
on this suit.

To support this appeal, we offer that this sets a detrimental precedence on
USDA’s ability to regulate disease and testing processes in animal
agriculture. As
we appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit of Creekstone, the larger scale
implications could lead to devastating impacts for food animal production in
this country
as itrelates to animal health. We do feel that private testing could hamper
animal health officials’ ability to locate disease occurrences, and exercise
proper
practices to trace, control and eliminate them. As you are aware, there are
a number
of factors that raise concern among animal health leaders and
diagnosticians.
We encourage you to thoroughly consider those upon your decision to appeal.
We do recognize this is now a matter of the courts, and trust that our
ability to safeguard animal health is not compromised as a result of this
litigation.
Please let us know if there is any further support we can provide.

Sincerely,

Lee M. Myers
President, U.S. Animal Health Association
Cc: Dr. John Clifford

===============================


USA MAD COW STRAIN MORE VIRULENT TO HUMANS THAN UK STRAIN

18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.


snip...

64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.

Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.


snip...

http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf


3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse

Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
Reserve
University

Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.

***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***


6:30 Close of Day One


http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp

Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL


BMJ


vCJD in the USA * BSE in U.S.
15 November 1999


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#5406


BMJ


U.S. Scientist should be concerned with a CJD epidemic in the U.S., as
well...
2 January 2000


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#6117

JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

MARCH 26, 2003

RE-Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease in the United States

Email Terry S. Singeltary:

[email protected]

I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to

comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging

forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE

transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate

phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest

sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable

nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every

state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to

expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are

sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in

the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and

CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by

intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other

TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every

victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this

agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose

others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there

should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena

from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic

CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535


doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00715-1
Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Newsdesk

Tracking spongiform encephalopathies in North America

Xavier Bosch

Available online 29 July 2003.


Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2003, Page 463


“My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my
mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD)
and have been searching for answers ever since. What I have found is that we
have not been told the truth. CWD
in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem.”
............................


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309903007151/fulltext

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/1473-3099/PIIS1473309903007151.pdf

SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...


http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/resources-casereport.html

There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.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


Sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease in two adolescents (sCJD, the big lie)
Date: May 28, 2007 at 7:58 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=25276


IN A NUT SHELL ;

(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries.
The OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease
status based on
inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that
were not promptly reported to then Central Bureau............

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf

Report to Congressional Requesters:

February 2005:

Mad Cow Disease:

FDA's Management of the Feed Ban Has Improved, but Oversight Weaknesses
Continue to Limit Program Effectiveness:

[Hyperlink, http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-101]:

http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05101.html

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05101high.pdf


January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and
Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts GAO-02-183


http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

OIE BSE RECOMMENDATION FOR USA, bought and paid for by your local cattle
dealers i.e. USDA

Date: May 14, 2007 at 9:00 am PST


http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18748

What Do We Feed to Food-Production Animals? A Review of Animal Feed
Ingredients and Their Potential Impacts on Human Health

Date: May 24, 2007 at 6:59 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=22301

The Economic Impact of B.S.E. on the U.S. Beef Industry: BY NOT TESTING TO
FIND

Date: May 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4687

SCRAPIE UPDATE USA AS OF MARCH 2007 NOR98 INCLUDED

Date: May 9, 2007 at 6:43 pm PST


http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=6721

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=8315

LIKE LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=11598

Scrapie Agent (Strain 263K) Can Transmit Disease via the ORAL Route after
Persistence in Soil over Years

Date: May 16, 2007 at 10:01 am PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=15481

Colorado Surveillance Program for Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission to
Humans (TWO SUSPECT CASES)

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:22:22 -0500


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=1165

Subject: Re: FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP

Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:37 PM


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=816

EXPORTATION AND IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS:
BSE; MRR AND IMPORTATION OF COMMODITIES, 65758-65759 [E6-19042]

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3854


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3381


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=498


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=10277


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=9972


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4492


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2583


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2470

HUMAN and ANIMAL TSE Classifications i.e. mad cow disease and the UKBSEnvCJD
only theory


TSEs have been rampant in the USA for decades in many species, and they all
have been rendered and fed back
to animals for human/animal consumption. I propose that the current
diagnostic criteria for human TSEs only
enhances and helps the spreading of human TSE from the continued belief of
the UKBSEnvCJD only theory in 2005.
With all the science to date refuting it, to continue to validate this myth,
will only spread this TSE agent
through a multitude of potential routes and sources i.e. consumption,
surgical, blood, medical, cosmetics
etc. I propose as with Aguzzi, Asante, Collinge, Caughey, Deslys, Dormont,
Gibbs, Ironside, Manuelidis,
Marsh, et al and many more, that the world of TSE Tranmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy is far from an
exact science, but there is enough proven science to date that this myth
should be put to rest once and for
all, and that we move forward with a new classification for human and animal
TSE that would properly identify
the infected species, the source species, and then the route. This would
further have to be broken down to
strain of species and then the route of transmission would further have to
be broken down. Accumulation and
Transmission are key to the threshold from subclinical to clinical disease,
and of that, I even believe that
physical and or blunt trauma may play a role of onset of clinical symptoms
in some cases, but key to all
this, is to stop the amplification and transmission of this agent, the
spreading of, no matter what strain.
BUT, to continue with this myth that the U.K. strain of BSE one strain in
cows, and the nv/v CJD, one strain in
humans, and that all the rest of human TSE is one single strain i.e.
sporadic CJD (when to date there are
6 different phenotypes of sCJD), and that no other animal TSE transmits to
humans, to continue with this
masquerade will only continue to spread, expose, and kill, who knows how
many more in the years and decades
to come. ONE was enough for me, My Mom, hvCJD, DOD 12/14/97 confirmed, which
is nothing more than another
mans name added to CJD, like CJD itself, Jakob and Creutzfeldt, or
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker
syndrome, just another CJD or human TSE, named after another human. WE are
only kidding ourselves with the
current diagnostic criteria for human and animal TSE, especially
differentiating between the nvCJD vs the
sporadic CJD strains and then the GSS strains and also the FFI fatal
familial insomnia strains or the ones
that mimics one or the other of those TSE? Tissue infectivity and strain
typing of the many variants of
the human and animal TSEs are paramount in all variants of all TSE. There
must be a proper classification that
will differentiate between all these human TSE in order to do this. With the
CDI and other more sensitive
testing coming about, I only hope that my proposal will some day be taken
seriously.

My name is Terry S. Singeltary Sr. and I am no scientist, no doctor and have
no PhDs, but have been
independently researching human and animal TSEs since the death of my Mother
to the Heidenhain Variant of
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease on December 14, 1997 'confirmed'. ...TSS


UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CREEKSTONE FARMS PREMIUM BEEF,
L.L.C.,
Plaintiff,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
et al.,
Defendants.
:::::::::::
Civil Action No. 06-0544 (JR)


snip...


JAMES ROBERTSON
United States District Judge


The government’s additional argument, that private testing 14
somehow would interfere with USDA’s surveillance program, is
unexplained and therefore rejected.
Of greater concern is the possibility that private testing 15
could produce a false positive result, which might trigger
unnecessary public alarm. USDA has asserted this possibility as
a reason to avoid private testing. Indeed, the Bio-Rad kits that
Creekstone proposes using are used throughout the world,
including as part of the USDA’s own surveillance testing.
- 18 -


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv0544-22



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
 

Kathy

Well-known member
Instead of using BIORAD's test for prions (Biological Radiation damage test), why not test the Peyer's Patch cells of the distal ileum for depleted uranium, plutonium . ... guess making this portion of the small intestine a "Specified Risk Material" PREVENTS this!!!

While the USA may (and in my opinion) have a huge number of animals with BSE, low level radiation exposure, it is important to note that contracting the same contamination from eating meat would require your body to be able to digest these various malformed proteins nucleated on uranium or plutonium or cesium...

This is the least toxic form of exposure. In order to transmit the "agent" responsible for the massive amounts of oxidative damage and mutagenic effects (radionuclides) the VLA or Veterinary Laboratory Agency of the UK had to first try to concentrate the prion fibrils (which can be formed in Prusiners lab with Uranyl Acetate stain in reverse micelles processes), then they had to "homogenize" this tissue which actually liquifies the protein breaking apart the fibrils into its base components metals, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon... Then they drenched it into the empty stomach of some calves, in one highly touted case, and even then not all the animals become ill. With the vast majority of transmission experiments, the researchers injected this liquified UNCHARACTERIZED glop directly into the brains of genetically modified mice (mice genetically modified to produce elevated amounts of PrP).

The danger from eating any prion crystals is negligible, if not nil! The threat from iatorgenic injections of the components that screwed up the protein in the first place (metal nucleating centers) is possible. Then again, simply inserting a stainless steel medical instrument containing NICKEL into the cranial cavity will translocate Ni into the brain.

Damage to the cattle industry has been focused on keeping the public scared of eating meat. This layed the foundation for a future catastrophe in the meat industry... UNLESS... the facts are exposed!

Eating grains and berries contaminated with uranium or plutonium or cesium will more readily translocate the radionuclide from the food product to the person eating it, as the protein content is low. In the Ukraine and Belarus, people are consuming water and food that is highly contaminated and thus the cases of unhealthy newborn babies is huge. One hospital in Minsk declares only 15 - 20 percent of the newborns are healthy/normal. That means 80-85% are sick, and sadly sometimes severely disfigured.

These countries, as well as our own coutries (Canada USA) are monitoring the levels of radionuclides in food. Fallout from the USA atmospheric testing of atomic bombs, and underground tests that were allowed to vent their toxic gases have showered down on the entire continent and farther. The reason for higher contamination levels in the polar regions (north pole for us), is the wind and atmospheric currents take the isotopes from the equator to the poles in a cycle. Once near the poles they deposit in the lichen thus polluting the animals and residents living there. Forcing these indigenous peoples into towns where they are encouraged to eat processed foods from elsewhere has been a double edged sword.

Shall we wait around for the "officials" to declare the BSE catastrophe, then fight back. OR shall we work to acknowledge that there is a problem with this radioactive fallout and work to correct the misinterpretted science of groups like Dr. Danny Matthews at the VLA, and others with Fort Collins, Co. and CFIA.

We can sit and do nothing, and let the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, France and United Kingdom form the "Global Nuclear Energy Partnership" to promote, control and contaminate the planet with nuclear reactors and all the radioactive activities that go along with the nuclear fuel cycle.

Then, we can sit on top of a huge deposit of nuclear waste and just wait.

Wait for the North American Union and the "officials" to tell us who can, and who can't, raise cattle. If you haven't signed up your PREMISE yet, the government sure wants you to. The all powerful government can't guarantee the safety of your animals and your crops without it!!!!

Flounder and I actually agree that there is, very likely, many cases of BSE in the USA (and Canada) that are going undetected.

We disagree, big time, as to what "agent" poses the threat.

On the other hand, you can become a vegetarian and eat genetically modified proteins (like soya, corn, soon wheat) and take your chances there.

USDA is blocking testing for a reason, folks.
 

flounder

Well-known member
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Questions on your testing plans.
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:01:30 -0500
From: Joe B. Meng <XXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To:
CC:
References:


XXXXXXXX


As of our most recent conversations, it is still our intent to test
every animal.

The testing would be uniform for all programs.

Our certification for all Creekstone brands (Premium, Natural and
International) currently requires an "A" maturity animal. These are
considered to be 30 months and younger as determined by detention. It
has been our experience that this system errs on the side of caution as
we have had numerous age-verified animals well under 30 months to be
excluded based on detention. All countries to which we export, except
Japan, require under 30 months and have approved the detention process.

We are asking that USDA and FSIS supervise all testing at our expense
and any inconclusive would be sent to Ames, IA for confirmatory
testing. Once they have a questionable sample, the same procedures will
be followed that are currently approved. In the past, that has included
announcing the inconclusive as well as the final result. As you know,
the two native born cases were determined to be atypical, but I don't
believe that was announced at the same time as the positive results were
announced, so I'm not certain on USDA policy for announcing the strain.

We have had conversations with both BioRad and IDEXX, both of which are
approved by USDA. Most of the equipment in the lab is from BioRad, but
some of that would need to be replaced with updated equipment. I have
met with representatives of both companies and they tell me we could
have the new equipment in place and personnel training updated inside of
two weeks. Both companies would keep people on site for the early
stages of testing. The lab has already been approved so we could be
ready fairly quickly unless USDA finds a way to complicate the process.
Additionally, both BioRad and IDEXX have looked at the facility and tell
us it is superior to the currently approved facilities.

Joe Bill





________________________________

TSS
 

mrj

Well-known member
When this guy writes "detention", does he mean "dentition"?

Isn't it troubling when someone of his apparent stature fails to use the proper term, or spelling, as the case may be?????

No, I'm not claiming any superiority, only CONCERN for absolute accuracy in such serious matters.

mrj
 

flounder

Well-known member
Jere L. Dick Associate Deputy Administrator National Animal Health Policy
and Programs Veterinary Services WROTE ;


> Protection of public health from BSE is achieved by the removal from the
human food supply of the animal
> tissues-often referred to as specified risk


> Mr. Terry S. Singeltary, Sr. Page 2


> materials-in which the BSE infective agent would be found if present, and
by
> other controls imposed at the slaughter level.



FDA Still Considering Feed Ban - 9/5/2007

OMAHA (DTN) -- Two years after it was proposed, a federal rule that would
tighten the livestock feed ban is still moving "expeditiously" upstream in
the regulatory bureaucracy and could still see the light of day.
The issue has come up in negotiations with Japan about raising the age limit
on beef processed for Japan. U.S. negotiators continue demanding that Japan
and other trading partners accept the approved "negligible risk" designation
that the U.S. received on its controls of bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
or BSE, from the World Organization for Animal Health.
Accepting that status would require Japan to get rid of its requirement that
all U.S. beef shipped to the country come from cattle aged 21 months or
younger. Still, Japanese officials want to know why the U.S. hasn't
implemented the FDA plan to tighten the ruminant feed ban.
FDA officials proposed new measures in October 2005 to tighten its controls
on the 1997 ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban by removing "high-risk cattle
materials" from all animal feed. The proposal largely focuses on
eliminating brains and spinal cords in animal feed under certain
circumstances.
The rule is meant to reduce the threat that BSE, or mad-cow disease, might
infect U.S. cattle. The country has faced three cases of BSE, which has
wrecked U.S. exports of beef since 2003.
In 2005, the FDA received 780 public comments on the proposed rule. A
spokesman at the time said the complexity of the comments could cause the
agency to take "a few months" to digest the information. Officials then had
the option of choosing to implement the proposed rule as written, modify it
or withdraw the rule completely based on comments received.
It's now been 23 months since FDA announced the proposed tighter feed ban,
but a spokeswoman for FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine said the agency
continues work on the regulation.
"I can tell you the agency is working to develop and issue a final rule as
expeditiously as possible and that we have no estimated timeframe on when a
final rule will be published," Alvey said. "That's basically all I can tell
you."
The rule has not made it to the White House Office of Management and Budget,
which reviews all regulatory rules before they are allowed to be
implemented.
Renderers and feed-industry officials have kept close tabs on the FDA
proposal. Randy Gordon, vice president of the National Grain and Feed
Association, said the last he understood was that the feed rule had "cleared
the agency" and was now under consideration at the full Health and Human
Services staff level.
"My understanding is there are conversations occurring across agency and
with USDA and OMB right now," Gordon said. "Those kind of inter-agency
discussions, as we understand it, are in fact occurring."
Some have suggested the FDA would likely not move ahead without another case
of BSE to prod the process along, but Gordon said it appears FDA still
considers it a priority to implement a tighter feed ban.
Tom Cook, president of the National Renderers Association, said he and his
staff have learned the proposed rules are floating somewhere between the FDA
and the secretary of Health and Human Services.
"How fast it is moving and how much attention it is getting, we don't know,"
Cook said.
Members of the rendering industry were vocal critics of the proposal last
year because of the overall repercussions on feed, rendering and overall
deadstock, given that the U.S. has found only three cases of BSE, one of
which was not even a domestic animal.
"As far as we are concerned it could be another 10 years before they come
out with it because we think it's not necessary," Cook said. "We think we
have made our case pretty strongly."
A study by the National Renderers Association in 2006 projected at least a
$150 million impact to the livestock and rendering industry under tighter
restrictions for handling deadstock. The industry analysis has been cited as
one reason the FDA has taken longer to re-evaluate the proposed rule.
Under the FDA proposal, brains and spinal cords from cattle over 30 months
of age would be prohibited from animal feed. The same materials would be
banned if they came from younger cattle that were not approved for human
consumption.
Given that downers are now permanently banned from all human consumption,
brain and spinal-cord materials would have be removed from all on-farm
deadstock. Entire carcasses would be banned from animal feed if the animal
was not approved for human consumption and the brains and spinal cords were
not removed.
"The costs of complying with this proposed rule is going to cause other
problems the industry isn't going to be happy with, as far as disposal
issues and handling of animals that die on the farm," Cook said. "If the
rule is finalized, there are a lot of renderers out there who pick up
animals that die on the farm that will discontinue that service."In July,
the Canadian Food Inspection Agency enhanced its feed ban by implementing a
new rule banning all specified risk materials from any livestock, pet food
or fertilizer in the country.
Chris Clayton can be reached at [email protected]
(SK)
Copyright 2007 DTN. All rights reserved.



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Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

P.O. Box 42

Bacliff, Texas USA 77518





flounder said:
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)
Date: May 29, 2007 at 12:38 pm PST

US to Meatpackers: Don't Do Mad Cow Test

MATT APUZZO
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep
meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for
the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But
Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows.

Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its
meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive
test, too.

A federal judge ruled in March that such tests must be allowed. The ruling
was to take effect June 1, but the Agriculture Department said Tuesday it
would appeal , effectively delaying the testing until the court challenge
plays out.

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is linked to more than
150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain.

There have been three cases of mad cow disease in the U.S. The first, in
December 2003 in Washington state, was in a cow that had been imported from
Canada. The second, in 2005, was in a Texas-born cow. The third was
confirmed last year in an Alabama cow.

The Agriculture Department argued that widespread testing could lead to a
false positive that would harm the meat industry. U.S. District Judge James
Robertson noted that Creekstone sought to use the same test the government
relies on and said the government didn't have the authority to restrict it.


http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/health/7730482.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: USDA VS CREEKSTONE BSE/BASE/TSE TESTING Civil Action No. 06-0544
(JR)



May 27, 2007

Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250


CC


Honorable Judge James Robertson
U.S. District Court
333 Constitution Ave. North West
Washington, D. C. 20001

Subject: Request to let the Creekstone vs. USDA court decision stand.

Ref: Letter from United States Animal Health Association, dated May 22,
2007

Dear Mr. Secretary et al :

I am requesting that you allow the court decision in the Creekstone vs.
USDA to stand so that Creekstone may begin testing the beef they process
for BSE and or BASE and or any other TSE phenotype there of. WE must let
them test since the USDA et al refuse to do so properly. This is not to say
that there should be no strict TSE testing protocols. IF testing is to take
place
privately, there must be strict TSE testing protocol to assure the most up
to date,
sensitive, and validated tests are used, and used properly. These tests must
be
announced to the public in a timely manner at every step of the way,
validated and
confirmed by the federal government, Weybridge, and an independent third
party consumer
organization and there TSE expert of choice, in my opinion.

My mother died from a exceedingly rare strain of sporadic CJD i.e. the
Heidenhain Variant of CJD. My neighbors mother also lost his mother to a
form of
sporadic CJD exactly one year previously from the day my mother died. BOTH
cases were
confirmed by autopsy. There is new data out about the BASE atypical BSE,
which
pathologically is more related to a phenotype of sporadic CJD, than the
nvCJD in humans from
the UK. To continue to ignore these scientific findings with the old
UKBSEnvCJD only
theory is not justified by science anymore. It is not logical.

The logic behind the reasons not to let test for TSE in the USA because of
The Virus Serum Toxin Act of 1913 and or because of the recent letter from
the USAHA (see
letter below) bring forth, are totally bogus. NO one could screw the testing
up any worse than the USDA
has done in the past. The OIG and the GAO has shown this time and time
again. The 2004 Enhanced
BSE surveillance program where some 275,000+ cattle were tested for BSE was
proven to be
terribly flawed from the beginning. This documented time and time again.
Even Paul Brown, known and
respected TSE scientist, former TSE expert for the CDC said he had
''absolutely no confidence in USDA
tests before one year ago'', and this was on March 15, 2006 ;

"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

CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt ...
Dr. Paul Brown is Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Central
Nervous System ... Address for correspondence: Paul Brown, Building 36, Room
4A-05, ...


http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm

PAUL BROWN COMMENT TO ME ON THIS ISSUE

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:10 AM


"Actually, Terry, I have been critical of the USDA handling of the mad cow
issue for some years,
and with Linda Detwiler and others sent lengthy detailed critiques and
recommendations to both the
USDA and the Canadian Food Agency."


OR, what the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG found ;


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf


Mr. Johanns, The August 4, 1997 FDA BSE ruminant to ruminant feed ban was
nothing more than ink on paper.
In 2007 alone, 10 MILLION plus pounds of banned blood laced MBM has already
gone out into commerce
for the feeding of banned product to cattle. yes, were still feeding cows
banned BSE/BASE product
in 2007, almost 10 years after the voluntary ban was put in place. guess
what, it aint working.

YOU and this Administration have failed terribly in protecting not only the
consumer, but your precious
commodity that you speak so highly of i.e. the beef industry. In your
continued efforts to cover up the real
mad cow problem in the USA, you have in fact only amplified it and continued
it's spread, and in doing so,
you have needlessly exposed millions to the TSE agent, from many different
proven routes and sources. The
only saving grace you have is the incubation period has been on your side.
It will catch up. When it does, when
the people finally figure all this out, when some of the millions you have
needlessly exposed to this agent become
clinical in the future, rest assured I will stand in line to see that you
and your administration are convicted for murder.
What you and this administration have done over the past 8 years is
criminal, in my opinion.
I have watched not only you, but the Bush administration thumb there nose to
science for almost 8 years, all to
protect the beef industry. The science was there, but you chose to ignore
it, and even manipulated science with the
bogus BSE MRR policy, all the while your were implementing that, you were
covering up another mad cow in Texas.
But thanks to the Honorable Phyllis Fong of the OIG, and an act of Congress,
that mad cow was finally proven positive,
unlike the other stumbling and staggering mad cow that was rendered without
any test at all in Texas, but by then you
had succeeded in the BSE MRR policy, the legal trading of all strains of TSE
globally. You and this administration have
done the same thing the UK did when they poisoned the globe with there
exporting of BSE, except you made it legal
now with the BSE MRR policy, and now we are dealing with BASE, a strain that
is more virulent to humans.
what happens when it mutates again? when cwd deer and elk and there
different phenotypes have all been rendered
into feed, along with scrapie infected sheep in the USA, and a few TME to
top that off, it will be a most interesting
recipe will it not, and an interesting case study for humans for decades to
come. sadly though, with the recent pet food
scandal, and the deaths there of, we have learned a few things. one, that
the elderly are expendable, but cats, dogs, and
adolescents are not. and that the problem of our feeding of food producing
animals has been tainted for decades. and with
the melamine scandal, as with the mad cow feed scandal, it's the same old
song and dance by you and the Bush administration,
everything is o.k., will not hurt you, cover-up and protect the industry at
all cost, and this will be another part of your sad legacy
in History Sir.

To not allow BSE/TSE testing in the USA, testing that will find, only proves
our point, you have and will continue to cover up
the real mad cow problem in the USA. and the world knows this. ...

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77519

UNITED STATES ANIMAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
8100 Three Chopt Road, Suite 203
P. O. BOX K227
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23288
804- 285-3210 FAX 804-285-3367
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web Site: www.usaha.org

May 22, 2007
Honorable Michael Johanns
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Room 200 Jamie Whitten Federal Building
Washington, D.C. 20250

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), wishes to express its
encouragement to you and the Department of Agriculture to appeal the
litigation surrounding private testing for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
We hope
you will strongly consider this as you work with the Office of General
Counsel
on this suit.

To support this appeal, we offer that this sets a detrimental precedence on
USDA’s ability to regulate disease and testing processes in animal
agriculture. As
we appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit of Creekstone, the larger scale
implications could lead to devastating impacts for food animal production in
this country
as itrelates to animal health. We do feel that private testing could hamper
animal health officials’ ability to locate disease occurrences, and exercise
proper
practices to trace, control and eliminate them. As you are aware, there are
a number
of factors that raise concern among animal health leaders and
diagnosticians.
We encourage you to thoroughly consider those upon your decision to appeal.
We do recognize this is now a matter of the courts, and trust that our
ability to safeguard animal health is not compromised as a result of this
litigation.
Please let us know if there is any further support we can provide.

Sincerely,

Lee M. Myers
President, U.S. Animal Health Association
Cc: Dr. John Clifford

===============================


USA MAD COW STRAIN MORE VIRULENT TO HUMANS THAN UK STRAIN

18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.


snip...

64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.

Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.


snip...

http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf


3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse

Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western
Reserve
University

Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.

***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest
that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***


6:30 Close of Day One


http://www.healthtech.com/2007/tse/day1.asp

Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL


BMJ


vCJD in the USA * BSE in U.S.
15 November 1999


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#5406


BMJ


U.S. Scientist should be concerned with a CJD epidemic in the U.S., as
well...
2 January 2000


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#6117

JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

MARCH 26, 2003

RE-Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease in the United States

Email Terry S. Singeltary:

[email protected]

I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to

comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging

forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE

transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate

phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest

sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable

nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every

state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to

expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are

sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in

the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and

CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by

intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other

TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every

victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this

agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose

others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there

should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena

from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic

CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535


doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00715-1
Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Newsdesk

Tracking spongiform encephalopathies in North America

Xavier Bosch

Available online 29 July 2003.


Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2003, Page 463


“My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my
mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD)
and have been searching for answers ever since. What I have found is that we
have not been told the truth. CWD
in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem.”
............................


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309903007151/fulltext

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/1473-3099/PIIS1473309903007151.pdf

SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...


http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/resources-casereport.html

There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.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


Sporadic creutzfeldt-jakob disease in two adolescents (sCJD, the big lie)
Date: May 28, 2007 at 7:58 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=25276


IN A NUT SHELL ;

(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries.
The OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease
status based on
inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that
were not promptly reported to then Central Bureau............

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf


Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program – Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain


http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf

Report to Congressional Requesters:

February 2005:

Mad Cow Disease:

FDA's Management of the Feed Ban Has Improved, but Oversight Weaknesses
Continue to Limit Program Effectiveness:

[Hyperlink, http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-101]:

http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05101.html

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d05101high.pdf


January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and
Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts GAO-02-183


http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

OIE BSE RECOMMENDATION FOR USA, bought and paid for by your local cattle
dealers i.e. USDA

Date: May 14, 2007 at 9:00 am PST


http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18748

What Do We Feed to Food-Production Animals? A Review of Animal Feed
Ingredients and Their Potential Impacts on Human Health

Date: May 24, 2007 at 6:59 am PST


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=22301

The Economic Impact of B.S.E. on the U.S. Beef Industry: BY NOT TESTING TO
FIND

Date: May 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4687

SCRAPIE UPDATE USA AS OF MARCH 2007 NOR98 INCLUDED

Date: May 9, 2007 at 6:43 pm PST


http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=6721

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=8315

LIKE LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=11598

Scrapie Agent (Strain 263K) Can Transmit Disease via the ORAL Route after
Persistence in Soil over Years

Date: May 16, 2007 at 10:01 am PST

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0705&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=15481

Colorado Surveillance Program for Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission to
Humans (TWO SUSPECT CASES)

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:22:22 -0500


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=1165

Subject: Re: FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP

Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:37 PM


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0704&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=816

EXPORTATION AND IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS:
BSE; MRR AND IMPORTATION OF COMMODITIES, 65758-65759 [E6-19042]

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3854


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0611&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=3381


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=498


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=10277


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0701&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=9972


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=4492


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2583


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=2470

HUMAN and ANIMAL TSE Classifications i.e. mad cow disease and the UKBSEnvCJD
only theory


TSEs have been rampant in the USA for decades in many species, and they all
have been rendered and fed back
to animals for human/animal consumption. I propose that the current
diagnostic criteria for human TSEs only
enhances and helps the spreading of human TSE from the continued belief of
the UKBSEnvCJD only theory in 2005.
With all the science to date refuting it, to continue to validate this myth,
will only spread this TSE agent
through a multitude of potential routes and sources i.e. consumption,
surgical, blood, medical, cosmetics
etc. I propose as with Aguzzi, Asante, Collinge, Caughey, Deslys, Dormont,
Gibbs, Ironside, Manuelidis,
Marsh, et al and many more, that the world of TSE Tranmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy is far from an
exact science, but there is enough proven science to date that this myth
should be put to rest once and for
all, and that we move forward with a new classification for human and animal
TSE that would properly identify
the infected species, the source species, and then the route. This would
further have to be broken down to
strain of species and then the route of transmission would further have to
be broken down. Accumulation and
Transmission are key to the threshold from subclinical to clinical disease,
and of that, I even believe that
physical and or blunt trauma may play a role of onset of clinical symptoms
in some cases, but key to all
this, is to stop the amplification and transmission of this agent, the
spreading of, no matter what strain.
BUT, to continue with this myth that the U.K. strain of BSE one strain in
cows, and the nv/v CJD, one strain in
humans, and that all the rest of human TSE is one single strain i.e.
sporadic CJD (when to date there are
6 different phenotypes of sCJD), and that no other animal TSE transmits to
humans, to continue with this
masquerade will only continue to spread, expose, and kill, who knows how
many more in the years and decades
to come. ONE was enough for me, My Mom, hvCJD, DOD 12/14/97 confirmed, which
is nothing more than another
mans name added to CJD, like CJD itself, Jakob and Creutzfeldt, or
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker
syndrome, just another CJD or human TSE, named after another human. WE are
only kidding ourselves with the
current diagnostic criteria for human and animal TSE, especially
differentiating between the nvCJD vs the
sporadic CJD strains and then the GSS strains and also the FFI fatal
familial insomnia strains or the ones
that mimics one or the other of those TSE? Tissue infectivity and strain
typing of the many variants of
the human and animal TSEs are paramount in all variants of all TSE. There
must be a proper classification that
will differentiate between all these human TSE in order to do this. With the
CDI and other more sensitive
testing coming about, I only hope that my proposal will some day be taken
seriously.

My name is Terry S. Singeltary Sr. and I am no scientist, no doctor and have
no PhDs, but have been
independently researching human and animal TSEs since the death of my Mother
to the Heidenhain Variant of
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease on December 14, 1997 'confirmed'. ...TSS


UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CREEKSTONE FARMS PREMIUM BEEF,
L.L.C.,
Plaintiff,
v.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
et al.,
Defendants.
:::::::::::
Civil Action No. 06-0544 (JR)


snip...


JAMES ROBERTSON
United States District Judge


The government’s additional argument, that private testing 14
somehow would interfere with USDA’s surveillance program, is
unexplained and therefore rejected.
Of greater concern is the possibility that private testing 15
could produce a false positive result, which might trigger
unnecessary public alarm. USDA has asserted this possibility as
a reason to avoid private testing. Indeed, the Bio-Rad kits that
Creekstone proposes using are used throughout the world,
including as part of the USDA’s own surveillance testing.
- 18 -


https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv0544-22



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
 
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