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<blockquote data-quote="flounder" data-source="post: 236227" data-attributes="member: 3519"><p>CJD WATCH MESSAGE BOARD</p><p>TSS</p><p>FDA Statement on Canadian Rule to Control BSE Risks</p><p>Tue Jun 27, 2006 09:27</p><p>70.110.82.186</p><p></p><p></p><p>##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy #####################</p><p></p><p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p>Statement</p><p>June 26, 2006</p><p>Media Inquiries: </p><p>Rae Jones, 301-827-6242</p><p>Consumer Inquiries: </p><p>888-INFO-FDA</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>FDA Statement on Canadian Rule to Control BSE Risks</p><p></p><p>The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is aware of the release of a final rule by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to extend protections in Canada against the risks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), so-called Mad Cow disease. The rule is an addition to existing Canadian measures to ban risky ingredients in animal feed -- measures that have provided significant safeguards to protect the health of both United States and Canadian cattle fed animal feed from Canada, and thereby have protected consumers of beef in both countries. </p><p></p><p>The Canadian approach to BSE prevention is similar to FDA's approach, and the public health agencies of both countries have been in close touch as they have developed their respective regulations. Both countries' BSE feed rules are designed to forestall the spread of the disease and its related human form, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, through BSE-infected animal feed. The FDA BSE feed rule, which has been in effect since 1997, has proved its effectiveness as a key component of a tiered firewall against BSE; to date, there have been only three cows found with BSE in the United States, and each of them was either imported, or old enough to have consumed animal feed manufactured before the regulation took effect. </p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, since the detection of the first BSE-positive cow in the United States, FDA has been actively exploring various ways to further strengthen its existing feed rule which prohibits the use of certain mammalian protein in feed for cattle and other ruminants. Even though the risk of BSE is extremely low, in October 2005, the agency issued a proposed rule that would prohibit the use of certain high risk cattle materials in all animal feed to further reduce an already low probability event. The agency is in the process of analyzing and evaluating the approximately 800 public comments submitted to the FDA about this proposal. </p><p></p><p>FDA and HHS are committed to continuing to protect animal health and consumers against the spread of BSE through animal feed in the United States . After FDA considers the public comments on the proposal issued in October 2005, the agency and HHS plan to develop and issue a final rule as expeditiously as possible. </p><p></p><p>#### </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01397.html" target="_blank">http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01397.html</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>>>>to date, there have been only three cows found with BSE in the United States, and each of them was either imported, or old enough to have consumed animal feed manufactured before the regulation took effect. <<< </p><p></p><p></p><p>PLEASE NOTE, key word here ''found''. </p><p></p><p>does not mean that there are many more that they refused to find, considering the terribly flawed USDA june 2004 enhanced BSE cover-up, all of which has been well documented on this list. </p><p></p><p></p><p>>>>The agency is in the process of analyzing and evaluating the approximately 800 public comments submitted to the FDA about this proposal. <<< </p><p></p><p>>>>The FDA BSE feed rule, which has been in effect since 1997, has proved its effectiveness as a key component of a tiered firewall against BSE<<< </p><p></p><p></p><p>while were all still holding our breath here, the mad cow agent continues to amplify and spread through the USA livestock community via the terribly flawed USDA/FDA BSE 'tiered firewall' and that very recent 9 state recall of feed product containing potential mad cow disease. ... </p><p></p><p>still disgusted in sunny bacliff, texas </p><p></p><p></p><p>TSS</p><p></p><p></p><p>#################### <a href="https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html" target="_blank">https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html</a> ####################</p><p></p><p></p><p>##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy #####################</p><p></p><p>Top Democrat Finds F.D.A.'s Efforts Have Plunged </p><p></p><p></p><p>By GARDINER HARRIS</p><p>Published: June 27, 2006</p><p>WASHINGTON, June 26 — A 15-month inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug laws declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration. </p><p></p><p>For instance, the investigation found, the number of warning letters that the Food and Drug Administration issued to drug companies, medical device makers and others dropped 54 percent, to 535 in 2005 from 1,154 in 2000. </p><p></p><p>The seizure of mislabeled, defective or dangerous products dipped 44 percent, according to the inquiry, pursued by Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. </p><p></p><p>The research found no evidence that such declines could be attributed to increased compliance with regulations. Investigators at the F.D.A. continued to uncover about the same number of problems at drug and device companies as before, Mr. Waxman's inquiry found, but top officials of the agency increasingly overruled the investigators' enforcement recommendations. </p><p></p><p>The biggest decline in enforcement actions was found at the agency's device center, where they decreased 65 percent in the five-year period despite a wave of problems with devices including implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. </p><p></p><p>"Americans have relied on F.D.A. to ensure the safety of their food and drugs for 100 years," Mr. Waxman said. "But under the Bush administration, enforcement efforts have plummeted and serious violations are ignored." </p><p></p><p>David K. Elder, the director of the agency's Office of Enforcement, explained that the F.D.A. had increasingly focused on the most serious violations. </p><p></p><p>"As a result of F.D.A.'s focus on those firms and those violations that present the highest risk to consumers and public health," Mr. Elder said in a statement, "the agency has taken prompt, targeted and aggressive action against firms that are in violation of law." </p><p></p><p>Jack Calfee, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the decline in the statistics was meaningless because most of the violations involved paperwork problems. </p><p></p><p>"I doubt that it makes a significant difference in the safety of drugs or other products," Mr. Calfee said. </p><p></p><p>Mr. Waxman began his inquiry after Congressional hearings in 2004 suggested that the agency was partly to blame for a shortage of flu vaccines. His staff requested thousands of documents from the F.D.A. </p><p></p><p>The investigation found that by almost every measure, enforcement actions had significantly declined from 2000 to 2005. The lone exception was in the number of products that had to be recalled from the market: that increased 44 percent. </p><p></p><p>"Since one of the goals of an enforcement system is to deter violations and keep dangerous products off of the market," the report said, "the increase in recalls is not a hallmark of effective enforcement." </p><p></p><p>In one prominent case, in December 2000, a worker at a nursing home in Xenia, Ohio, mistakenly hooked up a tank of nitrogen gas to the home's oxygen delivery system. Four residents died. </p><p></p><p>In the months that followed, investigators for the agency concluded that the company that delivered the tanks, BOC Gases, was partly to blame for the mix-up, given what they deemed inadequacy of the company's own controls and employee training. Indeed, BOC had a "corporate-wide problem," F.D.A. documents at the time said. The investigators recommended prosecution, but the agency took no enforcement action. </p><p></p><p>Kristina Schurr, a spokeswoman for BOC, said that the company's controls had not been to blame but that in any case it had improved its procedures since then. </p><p></p><p>Several former top officials of the agency attributed the decline in enforcement actions to budget problems. </p><p></p><p>"This is a tragedy," said Peter Barton Hutt, a former general counsel of the F.D.A. who now represents drug companies and teaches food and drug law at Harvard. "Congress has failed to realize that our single most important government agency is being systematically dismantled." </p><p></p><p>Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at the watchdog organization Public Citizen, noted that the agency now received about $380 million a year in fees from drug makers. </p><p></p><p>"The public," Dr. Wolfe said, "is getting the kind of F.D.A. that the industry is paying for them to get." </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/health/policy/27fda.html?hp&ex=1151467200&en=0e25a48e6978b523&ei=5094&partner=homepage" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/healt ... r=homepage</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p>June 26, 2006, 11:10PM</p><p>Study shows drop in enforcement of FDA laws </p><p></p><p></p><p>New York Times </p><p></p><p>WASHINGTON - An inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug laws declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration. </p><p></p><p>For instance, the 15-month investigation found, the number of warning letters that the Food and Drug Administration issued to drug companies, medical device makers and others dropped 54 percent, to 535 in 2005 from 1,154 in 2000. </p><p></p><p>The seizure of mislabeled, defective or dangerous products dipped 44 percent, according to the inquiry, pursued by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. </p><p></p><p>The research found no evidence that such declines could be attributed to increased compliance with regulations. Investigators at the FDA continued to uncover about the same number of problems at drug and device companies as before, Waxman's inquiry found, but top officials of the agency increasingly overruled the investigators' enforcement recommendations. .......... chron.com/ </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:04:42 -0700 </p><p></p><p>>>Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy </p><p></p><p>>>Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy </p><p></p><p>>>From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. </p><p></p><p>>>Subject: MAD COW FEED BAN WARNING LETTERS USA 'update' </p><p></p><p></p><p>>>where, oh where, did all Terry's mad cow feed ban warning letters go$ </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>FDA Cuts Back on Warnings </p><p></p><p>>> >>10/01/02 </p><p></p><p>>> >>WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has substantially cut </p><p></p><p>>>back on warnings sent to companies that run afoul of its rules, a move </p><p></p><p>>>the agency contends will result in more-effective enforcement but that </p><p></p><p>>>critics say lets violators off the hook. </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>The drop results from a policy change in late February that requires the </p><p></p><p></p><p>>>FDA chief counsel's office to clear all warning letters to ensure they </p><p></p><p>>>are legally sound. Before the change, division and district offices </p><p></p><p>>>around the country issued such letters unilaterally. In the six months </p><p></p><p>>>since, the agency issued 279 warning letters, a drop of 64% from the </p><p></p><p>>>same period last year, a review of agency records shows. The FDA says </p><p></p><p>>>the chief counsel's office rejected only 6% of the 699 warning letters </p><p></p><p>>>and other citations it reviewed. At the same time, division and district </p><p></p><p>>>enforcers may be holding back letters they once would have sent. </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>SEE FULL STORY >> >> </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>snip... </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:21:00 -0700 </p><p></p><p>>>Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy </p><p></p><p>>>Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy </p><p></p><p>>>From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. </p><p></p><p>>>Subject: 'TONNAGE' OF TAINTED FEED $ what's up with the mad cow warning >> letters >> </p><p></p><p>>>Greetings, >> </p><p></p><p>>>since the FDA has apparently stopped issuing some warning letters; >> >>10/7/02 >> </p><p></p><p>>>Senate Questions FDA Commissioner Nominee </p><p></p><p>>> >>In testimony today before the U.S. Senate, Dr. Mark McClellan, the Bush </p><p></p><p>>>administration nominee for Commissioner of Food and Drugs, said that </p><p></p><p>>>under his leadership, the FDA would uphold its enforcement authority to </p><p></p><p>>>ensure the safety and effectiveness of the products it regulates and to </p><p></p><p>>>ensure that accurate and truthful information is conveyed to the public. </p><p></p><p></p><p>>> >>Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, </p><p></p><p>>>Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed concern at the start of </p><p></p><p>>>the hearing that the FDA may be backing away from its regulatory </p><p></p><p>>>authority, noting a drop in the number of Warning Letters issued by the ... </p><p></p><p></p><p>snip... full text </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Jan03/012403/8004be07.html" target="_blank">http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys ... 4be07.html</a> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>TSS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flounder, post: 236227, member: 3519"] CJD WATCH MESSAGE BOARD TSS FDA Statement on Canadian Rule to Control BSE Risks Tue Jun 27, 2006 09:27 70.110.82.186 ##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ##################### FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement June 26, 2006 Media Inquiries: Rae Jones, 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA Statement on Canadian Rule to Control BSE Risks The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is aware of the release of a final rule by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to extend protections in Canada against the risks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), so-called Mad Cow disease. The rule is an addition to existing Canadian measures to ban risky ingredients in animal feed -- measures that have provided significant safeguards to protect the health of both United States and Canadian cattle fed animal feed from Canada, and thereby have protected consumers of beef in both countries. The Canadian approach to BSE prevention is similar to FDA's approach, and the public health agencies of both countries have been in close touch as they have developed their respective regulations. Both countries' BSE feed rules are designed to forestall the spread of the disease and its related human form, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, through BSE-infected animal feed. The FDA BSE feed rule, which has been in effect since 1997, has proved its effectiveness as a key component of a tiered firewall against BSE; to date, there have been only three cows found with BSE in the United States, and each of them was either imported, or old enough to have consumed animal feed manufactured before the regulation took effect. Nevertheless, since the detection of the first BSE-positive cow in the United States, FDA has been actively exploring various ways to further strengthen its existing feed rule which prohibits the use of certain mammalian protein in feed for cattle and other ruminants. Even though the risk of BSE is extremely low, in October 2005, the agency issued a proposed rule that would prohibit the use of certain high risk cattle materials in all animal feed to further reduce an already low probability event. The agency is in the process of analyzing and evaluating the approximately 800 public comments submitted to the FDA about this proposal. FDA and HHS are committed to continuing to protect animal health and consumers against the spread of BSE through animal feed in the United States . After FDA considers the public comments on the proposal issued in October 2005, the agency and HHS plan to develop and issue a final rule as expeditiously as possible. #### [url=http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01397.html]http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01397.html[/url] >>>to date, there have been only three cows found with BSE in the United States, and each of them was either imported, or old enough to have consumed animal feed manufactured before the regulation took effect. <<< PLEASE NOTE, key word here ''found''. does not mean that there are many more that they refused to find, considering the terribly flawed USDA june 2004 enhanced BSE cover-up, all of which has been well documented on this list. >>>The agency is in the process of analyzing and evaluating the approximately 800 public comments submitted to the FDA about this proposal. <<< >>>The FDA BSE feed rule, which has been in effect since 1997, has proved its effectiveness as a key component of a tiered firewall against BSE<<< while were all still holding our breath here, the mad cow agent continues to amplify and spread through the USA livestock community via the terribly flawed USDA/FDA BSE 'tiered firewall' and that very recent 9 state recall of feed product containing potential mad cow disease. ... still disgusted in sunny bacliff, texas TSS #################### [url=https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html]https://lists.aegee.org/bse-l.html[/url] #################### ##################### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ##################### Top Democrat Finds F.D.A.'s Efforts Have Plunged By GARDINER HARRIS Published: June 27, 2006 WASHINGTON, June 26 — A 15-month inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug laws declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration. For instance, the investigation found, the number of warning letters that the Food and Drug Administration issued to drug companies, medical device makers and others dropped 54 percent, to 535 in 2005 from 1,154 in 2000. The seizure of mislabeled, defective or dangerous products dipped 44 percent, according to the inquiry, pursued by Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. The research found no evidence that such declines could be attributed to increased compliance with regulations. Investigators at the F.D.A. continued to uncover about the same number of problems at drug and device companies as before, Mr. Waxman's inquiry found, but top officials of the agency increasingly overruled the investigators' enforcement recommendations. The biggest decline in enforcement actions was found at the agency's device center, where they decreased 65 percent in the five-year period despite a wave of problems with devices including implantable defibrillators and pacemakers. "Americans have relied on F.D.A. to ensure the safety of their food and drugs for 100 years," Mr. Waxman said. "But under the Bush administration, enforcement efforts have plummeted and serious violations are ignored." David K. Elder, the director of the agency's Office of Enforcement, explained that the F.D.A. had increasingly focused on the most serious violations. "As a result of F.D.A.'s focus on those firms and those violations that present the highest risk to consumers and public health," Mr. Elder said in a statement, "the agency has taken prompt, targeted and aggressive action against firms that are in violation of law." Jack Calfee, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the decline in the statistics was meaningless because most of the violations involved paperwork problems. "I doubt that it makes a significant difference in the safety of drugs or other products," Mr. Calfee said. Mr. Waxman began his inquiry after Congressional hearings in 2004 suggested that the agency was partly to blame for a shortage of flu vaccines. His staff requested thousands of documents from the F.D.A. The investigation found that by almost every measure, enforcement actions had significantly declined from 2000 to 2005. The lone exception was in the number of products that had to be recalled from the market: that increased 44 percent. "Since one of the goals of an enforcement system is to deter violations and keep dangerous products off of the market," the report said, "the increase in recalls is not a hallmark of effective enforcement." In one prominent case, in December 2000, a worker at a nursing home in Xenia, Ohio, mistakenly hooked up a tank of nitrogen gas to the home's oxygen delivery system. Four residents died. In the months that followed, investigators for the agency concluded that the company that delivered the tanks, BOC Gases, was partly to blame for the mix-up, given what they deemed inadequacy of the company's own controls and employee training. Indeed, BOC had a "corporate-wide problem," F.D.A. documents at the time said. The investigators recommended prosecution, but the agency took no enforcement action. Kristina Schurr, a spokeswoman for BOC, said that the company's controls had not been to blame but that in any case it had improved its procedures since then. Several former top officials of the agency attributed the decline in enforcement actions to budget problems. "This is a tragedy," said Peter Barton Hutt, a former general counsel of the F.D.A. who now represents drug companies and teaches food and drug law at Harvard. "Congress has failed to realize that our single most important government agency is being systematically dismantled." Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at the watchdog organization Public Citizen, noted that the agency now received about $380 million a year in fees from drug makers. "The public," Dr. Wolfe said, "is getting the kind of F.D.A. that the industry is paying for them to get." [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/health/policy/27fda.html?hp&ex=1151467200&en=0e25a48e6978b523&ei=5094&partner=homepage]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/healt ... r=homepage[/url] June 26, 2006, 11:10PM Study shows drop in enforcement of FDA laws New York Times WASHINGTON - An inquiry by a top House Democrat has found that enforcement of the nation's food and drug laws declined sharply during the first five years of the Bush administration. For instance, the 15-month investigation found, the number of warning letters that the Food and Drug Administration issued to drug companies, medical device makers and others dropped 54 percent, to 535 in 2005 from 1,154 in 2000. The seizure of mislabeled, defective or dangerous products dipped 44 percent, according to the inquiry, pursued by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee. The research found no evidence that such declines could be attributed to increased compliance with regulations. Investigators at the FDA continued to uncover about the same number of problems at drug and device companies as before, Waxman's inquiry found, but top officials of the agency increasingly overruled the investigators' enforcement recommendations. .......... chron.com/ >> >>Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:04:42 -0700 >>Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy >>Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy >>From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. >>Subject: MAD COW FEED BAN WARNING LETTERS USA 'update' >>where, oh where, did all Terry's mad cow feed ban warning letters go$ >> >>FDA Cuts Back on Warnings >> >>10/01/02 >> >>WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has substantially cut >>back on warnings sent to companies that run afoul of its rules, a move >>the agency contends will result in more-effective enforcement but that >>critics say lets violators off the hook. >> >>The drop results from a policy change in late February that requires the >>FDA chief counsel's office to clear all warning letters to ensure they >>are legally sound. Before the change, division and district offices >>around the country issued such letters unilaterally. In the six months >>since, the agency issued 279 warning letters, a drop of 64% from the >>same period last year, a review of agency records shows. The FDA says >>the chief counsel's office rejected only 6% of the 699 warning letters >>and other citations it reviewed. At the same time, division and district >>enforcers may be holding back letters they once would have sent. >> >>SEE FULL STORY >> >> [url=http://online.wsj.com/]http://online.wsj.com/[/url] >> >>snip... >> >>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:21:00 -0700 >>Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy >>Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy >>From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. >>Subject: 'TONNAGE' OF TAINTED FEED $ what's up with the mad cow warning >> letters >> >>Greetings, >> >>since the FDA has apparently stopped issuing some warning letters; >> >>10/7/02 >> >>Senate Questions FDA Commissioner Nominee >> >>In testimony today before the U.S. Senate, Dr. Mark McClellan, the Bush >>administration nominee for Commissioner of Food and Drugs, said that >>under his leadership, the FDA would uphold its enforcement authority to >>ensure the safety and effectiveness of the products it regulates and to >>ensure that accurate and truthful information is conveyed to the public. >> >>Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, >>Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed concern at the start of >>the hearing that the FDA may be backing away from its regulatory >>authority, noting a drop in the number of Warning Letters issued by the ... snip... full text [url=http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/03/Jan03/012403/8004be07.html]http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys ... 4be07.html[/url] TSS [/QUOTE]
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