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WHAT FEED BAN ?

HAY MAKER

Well-known member
Rob Brown
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Lakeside Packers is planning to construct an addition to their existing kill floor to bring the plant in line with nation wide feed ban conditions that will take effect July 12.

The county's municipal planning commission on Tuesday gave approval to a development permit to construct a 2,790 sq. ft. addition to the packing plant.

Lakeside president Jeff Rosgen said the addition is simply to meet federal regulations and will be used to congregate their raw handling material containing SRMs.

"The government is putting an enhanced feed ban in place, so by July 12 we have to have all of the SRM removed out of the feed meal," he said.

Both the provincial and federal governments announced in March they were investing $40 million to help accelerate the cattle industry's compliance to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's feed ban. Canada's current feed ban, implemented in 1997, limits the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The enhanced feed ban is intended to further protect animal health and will accelerate Canada's progress toward eradicating BSE from the national herd.

Specified risk materials (SRM) are tissues that, in BSE-infected cattle, have been shown to contain the infective agent and transmit the disease. The following tissues are defined in Canadian regulation as SRM: skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils, spinal cord, and dorsal root ganglia of cattle aged 30 months or older, and the distal ileum (part of the small intestine) of cattle of all ages.

"In order to do that we need to put up a small building adjacent to the existing facility to accommodate a holding and shipping area. The materials to be processed in Calgary," he said.

Rosgen said that the plant would not be incinerating any of the material on site.

"We are not doing anything with incineration. At this time the industry is having all the raw material SRM to be sent to Calgary to be processed," he said.
 

HAY MAKER

Well-known member
Wednesday May 02, 2007 11:54:42 AM


RMFU board opposes further opening border to Canadian cattle im
Meeting in Denver recently, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Board of Directors expressed strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's pending rule to expand imports of beef and live cattle from Canada. USDA currently has limited importation of Canadian beef from cattle younger than 30 months of age, due to numerous cases of BSE-positive cattle. The pending rule would allow cattle older than 30 months to be imported into the United States.

"While we empathize with our fellow cattle producers in Canada, the most recent BSE-positive test of a young bull questions the effectiveness of Canada's ban on ruminant by- products in feed,"
said Charles Klaseen, RMFU board member and cattle producer from Crawford, Colo. "The importation of Canadian cattle and co-mingling with U.S. cattle and beef could be highly detrimental to U.S. beef producers. In particular, damage could occur to the U.S. export market and to the high level of consumer confidence in beef born, raised and processed in the United States."

In early January, USDA proposed to allow imports of processed beef of any age and all cattle born after March 1, 1999, the date Canada banned ruminant by-products in feed for ruminants. Canada has had four confirmed cases of BSE-positive cattle born after the date of the ban, raising the question of compliance within Canada's feed manufacturing sector.

"We have to see evidence that Canada's measures to eliminate BSE are working before we can open up our borders to imports of Canadian beef and cattle," said Ken Macy, RMFU board member and cattle and sheep producer from Pine Bluffs, Wyo. "We just cannot afford to gamble with our future, and we don't think USDA should either."

The RMFU also noted that Congress needs to provide the funds and require USDA to implement mandatory country-of-origin labeling that was adopted as part of the 2002 farm bill.

"Mandatory county-of-origin labeling on meat and other foods would enable consumers to differentiate between U.S. and imported food products," said Kent Peppler, RMFU president and farmer from Mead, Colo. "Labeling is favored by the vast majority of consumers and producers. It would allay the fears of consumers if they are given the tools they need to choose what they want to eat."

Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is a general farm organization representing 25,000 families in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.
 

flounder

Well-known member
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


exactly, what bse/base/cwd/scrapie/tme feed ban....... tss
 

ranch hand

Well-known member
flounder said:
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


exactly, what bse/base/cwd/scrapie/tme feed ban....... tss

You just proved why we can not allow the otm cattle in from Canada. USA needs to get its feed ban in order before adding more cattle that might have bse into the feed.
 
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