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Vilsack Announces Final Rule for Handling of Non-Ambulatory

flounder

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Release No. 0060.09 Contact: Amanda Eamich (202) 720-9113

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces Final Rule for Handling of Non-Ambulatory Cattle

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a final rule to amend the federal meat inspection regulations to require a complete ban on the slaughter of cattle that become non-ambulatory disabled after passing initial inspection by Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspection program personnel.

The final rule amends the federal meat inspection regulations to require that all cattle that are non-ambulatory disabled ("downer") cattle at any time prior to slaughter at an official establishment, including those that become non-ambulatory disabled after passing ante-mortem inspection, be condemned and properly disposed of according to FSIS regulations. Additionally, the final rule requires that establishments notify inspection program personnel when cattle become non-ambulatory disabled after passing the ante-mortem, or pre-slaughter, inspection. The rule will enhance consumer confidence in the food supply and improve the humane handling of cattle.

"President Obama has strongly stated his support for efforts to improve food safety," said Vilsack. "This rule is designed to enhance consumer confidence and humane handling standards and will provide clear guidance that non-ambulatory cattle will not be allowed to enter the human food supply. It is a step forward for both food safety and the standards for humane treatment of animals. "

Under the final rule, cattle that become non-ambulatory disabled from an acute injury after ante-mortem inspection will no longer be eligible to proceed to slaughter as "U.S. Suspects." Instead, FSIS inspectors will tag these cattle as "U.S. Condemned" and prohibit these cattle from proceeding to slaughter. Discontinuing the case-by-case disposition of cattle that become non-ambulatory disabled after ante mortem inspection will eliminate the time FSIS Public Health Veterinarians spend conducting additional inspections on these animals, thereby increasing the time inspection program personnel can allocate to other inspection activities. With this final rule, these cattle now must be humanely euthanized.

On July 13, 2007, FSIS published the final rule, "Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk Materials for Human Food and Requirements for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle; Prohibition of the Use of Certain Stunning Devices Used To Immobilize Cattle During Slaughter" (the SRM final rule). The SRM final rule allowed a case-by-case reinspection of cattle that became non-ambulatory disabled after ante mortem inspection to address the rare situations in which an animal that is deemed by FSIS as fit for human food at ante-mortem inspection subsequently suffers an acute injury.

For further information, contact Dr. Daniel Engeljohn, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development, FSIS, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250, or by phone at (202) 205-0495.

# USDA News [email protected] 202 720-4623



http://www.usda.gov/2009/03/0060.xml



THANK GOD ! after years and years of exposing, especially our children with dead stock downer cows, from the USDA et al dead stock downer cow school lunch program, finally, some common sense comes forth. ...TSS



SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE


IS THERE A SCRAPIE-LIKE DISEASE IN CATTLE ?

In April of 1985, a mink rancher in Wisconsin reported a debilitating neurologic disease in his herd which we diagnosed as TME by histopathologic findings confirmed by experimental transmission to mink and squirrel monkeys. The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or dead dairy cattle and a few horses. She had never been fed.

We believe that these findings may indicate the presence of a previously unrecognized scrapie-like disease in cattle and wish to alert dairy practitioners to this possibility.

snip...

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL WESTERN CONFERENCE FOR FOOD ANIMAL VETERINARY MEDICINE, University of Arizona, March 17-19, 1986

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09a/tab01.pdf

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab05.pdf




> IS THERE A SCRAPIE-LIKE DISEASE IN CATTLE ?


YOU BET THERE IS, AND HAS BEEN, AND WE BEEN FEEDING THE MOST HIGH RISK I.E. DEAD STOCK DOWNER COWS TO OUR CHILDREN FOR DECADES, who will follow these children for human TSE from mad cow disease here in the USA in the years, decades to come, and how many will they expose from the 'pass it forward' friendly fire modes ???



http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2008/12/evaluation-of-fsis-management-controls.html


http://downercattle.blogspot.com/



TSS


Saturday, March 14, 2009 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Announces Final Rule for Handling of Non-Ambulatory Cattle

Release No. 0060.09 Contact: Amanda Eamich (202) 720-9113


http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2009/03/agriculture-secretary-tom-vilsack.html
 

Mike

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Wonder who the cost of the cattle that become non-ambulatory while at the sale barn will trickle back to? :roll:

Basically the rancher is going to have to guarantee that his animals will persist and/or thrive through a process in which he has no control over...............
 

flounder

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Mike said:
Wonder who the cost of the cattle that become non-ambulatory while at the sale barn will trickle back to? :roll:

Basically the rancher is going to have to guarantee that his animals will persist and/or thrive through a process in which he has no control over...............



kinda like sending a basket of bad rotten apples to market. you should not have sent them there in the first place.



it's been going on for years mike, they call in the SSS.



also, i remember someone years, decades back saying ;


3. Prof. A Robertson gave a brief account of BSE. The US approach was to accord it a very low profile indeed. Dr. A Thiermann showed the picture in the ''Independent'' with cattle being incinerated and thought this was a fanatical incident to be avoided in the US at all costs. BSE was not reported in the USA.



http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m11b/tab01.pdf



http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44044000/jpg/_44044817_pyres203.jpg



and thought this was a fanatical incident to be avoided in the US at all costs. BSE was not reported in the USA.



http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m11b/tab01.pdf



and sadly, some 20 years later, the USA still sits in mad cow denial.




Saturday, February 21, 2009 Renderers say industry not prepared for FDA feed ban rule ??? WHAT, IT'S 2009 FOR PETE'S SAKE $$$ Two recent articles caught my eye ;

Renderers say industry not prepared for FDA feed ban rule

Food Chemical News

February 2, 2009

and

BSE, rendering relate to human safety

Emma Struve 02/17/2009


http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/02/renderers-say-industry-not-prepared-for.html



tss
 

TexasBred

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Mike said:
Wonder who the cost of the cattle that become non-ambulatory while at the sale barn will trickle back to? :roll:

Basically the rancher is going to have to guarantee that his animals will persist and/or thrive through a process in which he has no control over...............

Around here the sale barn is responsible for the cattle once they unload, tag and accept them. Insurance has to pay you if one becomes "non-ambulatory".
 

Mike

Well-known member
TexasBred said:
Mike said:
Wonder who the cost of the cattle that become non-ambulatory while at the sale barn will trickle back to? :roll:

Basically the rancher is going to have to guarantee that his animals will persist and/or thrive through a process in which he has no control over...............

Around here the sale barn is responsible for the cattle once they unload, tag and accept them. Insurance has to pay you if one becomes "non-ambulatory".

What about the time they spent in transit to the packer and the time in the packer's pens? These losses will trickle back to the rancher, one way or another...........

Flounder is a fool. No one is selling bad apples.............. Just cows that aren't productive anymore.
 

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