RECALLS AND FIELD CORRECTIONS: VETERINARY - CLASS III
___________________________________
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Recalling Firm: Tri Ag Supply Inc., Harvard, IL, by telephone on September 11, 2009. Manufacturer: Hubbard Feeds Inc. dba Ridley Feed Ingredients, Mendota, IL. Firm initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Misbranding of product by partial label removal to hide original source of materials. Removal of partial label also removed weight and BSE statement and in some cases may remove a portion of the ingredient statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
95 bags
DISTRIBUTION
IL, OH and WI
END
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Safety/Rec ... 190289.pdf
Greetings,
I am wondering how others might be trying to comply with the BSE feed ban in 2009, AND OR NOT COMPLYING ???
Sam Kane Beef Processors P.O. Box 9254 CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 78469
October 5, 2009
Dear Customer:
Sam Kane Beef Processors has reviewed its procedures and protocols and reassessed its Hazard Analysis to ensure compliance with USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service's (FSIS) Final Rule published in the Federal Register on July 13, 2007 and effective October 1, 2007. The following documents and regulatory requirements have been reviewed prior to our reassessment:
Prohibition of the use of Specified Risk Materials in Human Food and Requirements for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Animals; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 03-025IF]; Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Meat Recovery (AMR) Systems; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 03-038IF]; Prohibition of the Use of certain Stunning Devices Used to Immobilize Cattle During Slaughter; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 01-033IF]; Awareness Meeting Regarding New Regulation that Prohibit Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and the use of Certain Materials from Cattle for Human Food; FSIS Notice 4-04, January 9, 2004; Interim Guidance for Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and Age determination; FSIS Notice 5-04, January 12, 2004; Questions and Answers for FSIS Notice 4-04 regarding FSIS's BSE Regulations; FSIS Notice 7-04, January 14, 2004; Verification Instructions For The Interim Final Rule Regarding Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) In Cattle; FSIS Notice 9-04, January 23, 2004; Questions and Answers, Regarding the Age Determination of Cattle and Sanitation; FSIS Notice 10-2004, January 29, 2004; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE); Issues Relating to Tonsils and Brain Collection; FSIS Notice 50-04, October 7, 2004; Verification Instructions for the SRM Amendment to 9 CFR 310.22(a)(3) Regarding Beef Small Intestines; FSIS Notice 58-05, September 14, 2005; Verification Activities at Establishments that Transport or Receive Cattle Carcasses or Parts with Vertebral Columns that Contain Specified Risk Materials (SRMs); FSIS Notice 68-05, October 6, 2005; Re-Examination of Bovine that become Non-Ambulatory after Passing Ante-Mortem Inspection; FSIS Notice 5-06, January 18, 2006; Final Regulations for Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and Specified Risk Materials (SRMs); FSIS Notice 56-07, August 31, 2007; Sample collection from cattle under the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ongoing surveillance program; FSIS Notice 103-08, December 31, 2008
Based on the information provided above and a review of our hazard analysis, we did consider BSE as a potential hazard, but determined that it is not reasonably likely to occur. This determination is supported by the fact that there has been only two positive native BSE animals, both if which were born before the FDA/USDA Feed Ban was placed in effect in 1997. Therefore, based on this information, and the ongoing USDA BSE Surveillance testing, we concluded that BSE is not reasonably likely to occur.
As requested, we also addressed Specified Risk Materials (SRM's) in the hazard analysis, and determined that since BSE is not likely to occur that the SRM control programs are best addressed as stand alone plant policies, not in the HACCP program. Sam Kane does not currently employee advanced meat recovery (AMR) in any of its processes.
1. We have implemented a policy to condemn and dispose of all non ambulatory disabled cattle. We understand that all non-ambulatory disabled live stock, including cattle, are now defined in 9CFR 309.2(b) as livestock that cannot rise from a recumbent position or that cannot walk, including, but not limited to, those with broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, fractured vertebral columns or metabolic conditions. These non-ambulatory disabled cattle will be handled humanely and disposed of properly.
2. We have implemented a policy to ensure that cattle selected by APHIS for BSE surveillance testing that are not non-ambulatory disabled will be held until the results of the test are received and are negative or it will be completely and properly disposed of to ensure that no products from the tested cattle enter the food system. We understand that a negative test result must be received before FSIS will "inspect and pass" the carcass.
3. We will not use a captive bolt stunner that injects compressed air into the cranium at the end of the penetration cycle to stun cattle.
4. The dentition guidelines provided in FSIS Notice 5-04 will be used to determine the age of the cattle, and those cattle identified as 30 months or older will be segregated and processed appropriately to ensure that the SRM's are properly removed and disposed.
5. The tonsils, and spinal cord of all cattle, regardless of age, will be removed on the slaughter floor and properly disposed of as inedible.
6. For cattle 30 months of age and older, the head, brain, skull, eyes, and trigeminal ganglia will be removed on the slaughter floor and properly disposed of as inedible.
7. Will remove (bone-out) the vertebral column (excluding the vertebra of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum) and the dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age and older on the processing floor before reaching the main production line, and properly dispose of as inedible.
8. No bone in product is produced from animals 30 months of age and older; no carcasses or carcass parts are shipped from animals 30 months of age and older
9. We will follow the guidelines set forth in FSIS Notice 58-05 regarding the complete removal of the Distal Ileum.
Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of "prohibited mammalian protein" in cattle rations (i.e., ruminant meat & bone meal) for ruminant animals (CFR 589. 2000). The FDA ban was implemented to prevent Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) into the U.S. cattle supply. All cattle suppliers to Sam Kane Beef Processors are required to provide us with documentation of their compliance to the FDA ruminant feeding ban for "prohibited mammalian protein" (ruminant meat & bone meal) before these cattle will be allowed to be presented for slaughter.
As more information becomes available or as FSIS provides further clarification we will evaluate our decisions to determine if changes are required in our program or our policies. Should you have any further questions please contact the Regulatory Compliance office.
________________________
Brian Honigbaum Regulatory Compliance
http://www.samkanebeef.com/Compliance/B ... Letter.pdf
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... ldren.html
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/
2009 and we are still discussing this $$$
I remember something long ago i.e. the enfamous August 4, 1997 partial and voluntary mad cow feed ban. Then I also remember what happened in the UK ;
STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 25, AUGUST 1995
snip...
To minimise the risk of farmers' claims for compensation from feed compounders.
To minimise the potential damage to compound feed markets through adverse publicity.
To maximise freedom of action for feed compounders, notably by maintaining the availability of meat and bone meal as a raw material in animal feeds, and ensuring time is available to make any changes which may be required.
snip...
THE FUTURE
4..........
MAFF remains under pressure in Brussels and is not skilled at handling potentially explosive issues.
5. Tests _may_ show that ruminant feeds have been sold which contain illegal traces of ruminant protein. More likely, a few positive test results will turn up but proof that a particular feed mill knowingly supplied it to a particular farm will be difficult if not impossible.
6. The threat remains real and it will be some years before feed compounders are free of it. The longer we can avoid any direct linkage between feed milling _practices_ and actual BSE cases, the more likely it is that serious damage can be avoided. ...
SEE full text ;
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1 ... 002001.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/200103052231 ... 002001.pdf
THIS is what happens when you have the industry run the government. I suggest folks start downloading these documents, for those still interested. SADLY, with the O.I.E. and it's failed policies on BSE/TSE, and or lack of any at all still with TSE and some species, what about SRM control ???
PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT ON SRMs, and the OIEs lack of care on TSE. ...TSS
Friday, September 4, 2009
FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT 429,128 lbs. feed for ruminant animals may have been contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/09/ ... oduct.html
Saturday, August 29, 2009
FOIA REQUEST FEED RECALL 2009 Product may have contained prohibited materials Bulk Whole Barley, Recall # V-256-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/08/ ... oduct.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:25 PM Subject: [BSE-L] re-FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009 and Recall # V-256-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... oduct.html
Thursday, November 12, 2009
BSE FEED RECALL Misbranding of product by partial label removal to hide original source of materials 2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... oduct.html
___________________________________
RECALLING FIRM/MANUFACTURER
Recalling Firm: Tri Ag Supply Inc., Harvard, IL, by telephone on September 11, 2009. Manufacturer: Hubbard Feeds Inc. dba Ridley Feed Ingredients, Mendota, IL. Firm initiated recall is complete.
REASON
Misbranding of product by partial label removal to hide original source of materials. Removal of partial label also removed weight and BSE statement and in some cases may remove a portion of the ingredient statement.
VOLUME OF PRODUCT IN COMMERCE
95 bags
DISTRIBUTION
IL, OH and WI
END
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Safety/Rec ... 190289.pdf
Greetings,
I am wondering how others might be trying to comply with the BSE feed ban in 2009, AND OR NOT COMPLYING ???
Sam Kane Beef Processors P.O. Box 9254 CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 78469
October 5, 2009
Dear Customer:
Sam Kane Beef Processors has reviewed its procedures and protocols and reassessed its Hazard Analysis to ensure compliance with USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service's (FSIS) Final Rule published in the Federal Register on July 13, 2007 and effective October 1, 2007. The following documents and regulatory requirements have been reviewed prior to our reassessment:
Prohibition of the use of Specified Risk Materials in Human Food and Requirements for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Animals; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 03-025IF]; Meat Produced by Advanced Meat/Bone Separation Machinery and Meat Recovery (AMR) Systems; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 03-038IF]; Prohibition of the Use of certain Stunning Devices Used to Immobilize Cattle During Slaughter; January 12, 2004; [Docket No. 01-033IF]; Awareness Meeting Regarding New Regulation that Prohibit Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and the use of Certain Materials from Cattle for Human Food; FSIS Notice 4-04, January 9, 2004; Interim Guidance for Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and Age determination; FSIS Notice 5-04, January 12, 2004; Questions and Answers for FSIS Notice 4-04 regarding FSIS's BSE Regulations; FSIS Notice 7-04, January 14, 2004; Verification Instructions For The Interim Final Rule Regarding Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) In Cattle; FSIS Notice 9-04, January 23, 2004; Questions and Answers, Regarding the Age Determination of Cattle and Sanitation; FSIS Notice 10-2004, January 29, 2004; Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE); Issues Relating to Tonsils and Brain Collection; FSIS Notice 50-04, October 7, 2004; Verification Instructions for the SRM Amendment to 9 CFR 310.22(a)(3) Regarding Beef Small Intestines; FSIS Notice 58-05, September 14, 2005; Verification Activities at Establishments that Transport or Receive Cattle Carcasses or Parts with Vertebral Columns that Contain Specified Risk Materials (SRMs); FSIS Notice 68-05, October 6, 2005; Re-Examination of Bovine that become Non-Ambulatory after Passing Ante-Mortem Inspection; FSIS Notice 5-06, January 18, 2006; Final Regulations for Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle and Specified Risk Materials (SRMs); FSIS Notice 56-07, August 31, 2007; Sample collection from cattle under the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ongoing surveillance program; FSIS Notice 103-08, December 31, 2008
Based on the information provided above and a review of our hazard analysis, we did consider BSE as a potential hazard, but determined that it is not reasonably likely to occur. This determination is supported by the fact that there has been only two positive native BSE animals, both if which were born before the FDA/USDA Feed Ban was placed in effect in 1997. Therefore, based on this information, and the ongoing USDA BSE Surveillance testing, we concluded that BSE is not reasonably likely to occur.
As requested, we also addressed Specified Risk Materials (SRM's) in the hazard analysis, and determined that since BSE is not likely to occur that the SRM control programs are best addressed as stand alone plant policies, not in the HACCP program. Sam Kane does not currently employee advanced meat recovery (AMR) in any of its processes.
1. We have implemented a policy to condemn and dispose of all non ambulatory disabled cattle. We understand that all non-ambulatory disabled live stock, including cattle, are now defined in 9CFR 309.2(b) as livestock that cannot rise from a recumbent position or that cannot walk, including, but not limited to, those with broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, fractured vertebral columns or metabolic conditions. These non-ambulatory disabled cattle will be handled humanely and disposed of properly.
2. We have implemented a policy to ensure that cattle selected by APHIS for BSE surveillance testing that are not non-ambulatory disabled will be held until the results of the test are received and are negative or it will be completely and properly disposed of to ensure that no products from the tested cattle enter the food system. We understand that a negative test result must be received before FSIS will "inspect and pass" the carcass.
3. We will not use a captive bolt stunner that injects compressed air into the cranium at the end of the penetration cycle to stun cattle.
4. The dentition guidelines provided in FSIS Notice 5-04 will be used to determine the age of the cattle, and those cattle identified as 30 months or older will be segregated and processed appropriately to ensure that the SRM's are properly removed and disposed.
5. The tonsils, and spinal cord of all cattle, regardless of age, will be removed on the slaughter floor and properly disposed of as inedible.
6. For cattle 30 months of age and older, the head, brain, skull, eyes, and trigeminal ganglia will be removed on the slaughter floor and properly disposed of as inedible.
7. Will remove (bone-out) the vertebral column (excluding the vertebra of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum) and the dorsal root ganglia of cattle 30 months of age and older on the processing floor before reaching the main production line, and properly dispose of as inedible.
8. No bone in product is produced from animals 30 months of age and older; no carcasses or carcass parts are shipped from animals 30 months of age and older
9. We will follow the guidelines set forth in FSIS Notice 58-05 regarding the complete removal of the Distal Ileum.
Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of "prohibited mammalian protein" in cattle rations (i.e., ruminant meat & bone meal) for ruminant animals (CFR 589. 2000). The FDA ban was implemented to prevent Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) into the U.S. cattle supply. All cattle suppliers to Sam Kane Beef Processors are required to provide us with documentation of their compliance to the FDA ruminant feeding ban for "prohibited mammalian protein" (ruminant meat & bone meal) before these cattle will be allowed to be presented for slaughter.
As more information becomes available or as FSIS provides further clarification we will evaluate our decisions to determine if changes are required in our program or our policies. Should you have any further questions please contact the Regulatory Compliance office.
________________________
Brian Honigbaum Regulatory Compliance
http://www.samkanebeef.com/Compliance/B ... Letter.pdf
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... ldren.html
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/
2009 and we are still discussing this $$$
I remember something long ago i.e. the enfamous August 4, 1997 partial and voluntary mad cow feed ban. Then I also remember what happened in the UK ;
STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 25, AUGUST 1995
snip...
To minimise the risk of farmers' claims for compensation from feed compounders.
To minimise the potential damage to compound feed markets through adverse publicity.
To maximise freedom of action for feed compounders, notably by maintaining the availability of meat and bone meal as a raw material in animal feeds, and ensuring time is available to make any changes which may be required.
snip...
THE FUTURE
4..........
MAFF remains under pressure in Brussels and is not skilled at handling potentially explosive issues.
5. Tests _may_ show that ruminant feeds have been sold which contain illegal traces of ruminant protein. More likely, a few positive test results will turn up but proof that a particular feed mill knowingly supplied it to a particular farm will be difficult if not impossible.
6. The threat remains real and it will be some years before feed compounders are free of it. The longer we can avoid any direct linkage between feed milling _practices_ and actual BSE cases, the more likely it is that serious damage can be avoided. ...
SEE full text ;
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1 ... 002001.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/200103052231 ... 002001.pdf
THIS is what happens when you have the industry run the government. I suggest folks start downloading these documents, for those still interested. SADLY, with the O.I.E. and it's failed policies on BSE/TSE, and or lack of any at all still with TSE and some species, what about SRM control ???
PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT ON SRMs, and the OIEs lack of care on TSE. ...TSS
Friday, September 4, 2009
FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT 429,128 lbs. feed for ruminant animals may have been contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/09/ ... oduct.html
Saturday, August 29, 2009
FOIA REQUEST FEED RECALL 2009 Product may have contained prohibited materials Bulk Whole Barley, Recall # V-256-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/08/ ... oduct.html
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:25 PM Subject: [BSE-L] re-FOIA REQUEST ON FEED RECALL PRODUCT contaminated with prohibited material Recall # V-258-2009 and Recall # V-256-2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... oduct.html
Thursday, November 12, 2009
BSE FEED RECALL Misbranding of product by partial label removal to hide original source of materials 2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/11/ ... oduct.html
