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Voluntary BSE testing for animals under 20 months

Do you support allowing voluntary BSE testing for under 20 month animals?

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DiamondSCattleCo

Well-known member
Since the likelihood of finding BSE in animals under 20 months is nil, with the currently approved USDA/CFIA tests, do you support allowing companies like Creekstone to test any animals they see fit to test?
 

HAY MAKER

Well-known member
Is the customer asking for testing ? Is it just not good buisness to satisfy your customers? Are the customers willing to pay the additional costs for testing ?
If the answer to these questions is "YES" then I am going to have to say yes I support testing in cattle UTM, as a matter of fact if the conditions above exist,I would support testing in cattle 2 days old................good luck
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
There is absolutley no difference between organic and BSE tested. If the consumers think that is what they want and are willing to pay for the extra trouble, what's the problem?
 

cowsense

Well-known member
Porker: Perhaps you would care to NAME the urine and blood tests for BSE that have been approved for use anywhere in the world!!!!!!!!!!
 

bse-tester

Well-known member
Cowsense Wrote:

Porker: Perhaps you would care to NAME the urine and blood tests for BSE that have been approved for use anywhere in the world!!!!!!!!!!


Cowsense, you know darn well that there are no tests currently approved for testing of urine and/or blood (any that can be reproduced effectively anyway at a level of confidence that exceeds 99% continuously)- but that may soon change. We are still moving ahead with our validation program and will do all we can to become the first in the great "anywhere' to be approved. It is only a matter of progressing through the next two years starting this year. We may have enough convincing data well before the two year test period is up and we will certainly be presenting our case data to the EU and the OIE and EFSA. It will take a mountain of convincing data but we are confident that we can deliver.
 

TimH

Well-known member
bse-tester said:
Cowsense Wrote:

Porker: Perhaps you would care to NAME the urine and blood tests for BSE that have been approved for use anywhere in the world!!!!!!!!!!


Cowsense, you know darn well that there are no tests currently approved for testing of urine and/or blood (any that can be reproduced effectively anyway at a level of confidence that exceeds 99% continuously)- but that may soon change. We are still moving ahead with our validation program and will do all we can to become the first in the great "anywhere' to be approved. It is only a matter of progressing through the next two years starting this year. We may have enough convincing data well before the two year test period is up and we will certainly be presenting our case data to the EU and the OIE and EFSA. It will take a mountain of convincing data but we are confident that we can deliver.

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Big Muddy rancher

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bse-tester said:
Cowsense Wrote:

Porker: Perhaps you would care to NAME the urine and blood tests for BSE that have been approved for use anywhere in the world!!!!!!!!!!


Cowsense, you know darn well that there are no tests currently approved for testing of urine and/or blood (any that can be reproduced effectively anyway at a level of confidence that exceeds 99% continuously)- but that may soon change. We are still moving ahead with our validation program and will do all we can to become the first in the great "anywhere' to be approved. It is only a matter of progressing through the next two years starting this year. We may have enough convincing data well before the two year test period is up and we will certainly be presenting our case data to the EU and the OIE and EFSA. It will take a mountain of convincing data but we are confident that we can deliver.


Tester I am glad you cleared that up for us becasue many on here talk about useing the live test. It would be great to have a live test but as yet there is not one available for use.

Rod go ahead and test your herd , it would lower the cattle numbers in Canada. A little bit anyway.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

Well-known member
Big Muddy rancher said:
Tester I am glad you cleared that up for us becasue many on here talk about useing the live test. It would be great to have a live test but as yet there is not one available for use.

Rod go ahead and test your herd , it would lower the cattle numbers in Canada. A little bit anyway.

You lost me BMR. If you look back on the poll I started, I said "if an APPROVED test existed, would you test?" And if one existed that guaranteed no false negs or positives, I'd use it in a heartbeat.

Rod
 
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