FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ineligible Imported Meat and Poultry Products from China, what about BSE?

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FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ineligible Imported Meat and Poultry Products from China, what about BSE?

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FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ineligible Imported Meat and Poultry Products from China

FSIS Announcement

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for an undetermined amount of imported meat and poultry products from China. A recall was not requested because FSIS has been unable to identify and contact the importers. The total amount of ineligible product is undetermined because the investigation is ongoing.

The products subject to the public health alert and labels are listed here.

The meat and poultry products do not identify an eligible establishment number on their packaging and were not presented to FSIS for import reinspection. These products are ineligible to import into the U.S., making them unfit for human consumption.

The problem was identified through an investigation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). FSIS will continue working with CBP and APHIS on the ongoing investigation.

Retailers who have purchased the products are urged not to sell them. Consumers who purchased the products should not consume them and need to dispose of them properly. Consumers are asked to dispose of the products by double bagging them to reduce the possibility of animals accessing the products. USDA cannot confirm whether the products were properly heated to control pathogens that affect domestic livestock.

There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider.

Consumers with food safety questions can call the toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) or live chat via Ask USDA from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday.

Consumers can also browse food safety messages at Ask USDA or send a question via email to [email protected]. For consumers that need to report a problem with a meat, poultry, or egg product, the online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at https://foodcomplaint.fsis.usda.gov/eCCF/.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/def..._pdf/2021-12/pha-12292021-01-product-list.pdf

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-a...ible-imported-meat-and-poultry-products-china

***> It is evident from Table 1 that China reacted to the outbreak of BSE by placing various bans such as feed ban, MBM ban and making BSE a notifiable disease in 1990. <***

(3) (PDF) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk management strategies in the People's Republic of China. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/.../264815349_Bovine...[accessed Dec 29 2021].

The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) of European Union established a qualitative indicator − the geographical BSE risk (GBR) − of the likelihood of the presence of one or more cattle being infected with BSE, pre-clinically as well as clinically, at a given point in time, in a country (Scientific Steering Committee, 2002b). This system was further expanded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to include countries participating in the import and export of cattle and cattle by-products. The previous GBR classifications have been phased out and as of 2007 WOFAH took the responsibility of classifying countries for their BSE risk under a new categorization system. The categories under the new system are negligible BSE risk, controlled BSE risk and undetermined BSE risk (Official Journal of the European Union, 2007). However, a GBR risk assessment was not conducted for China by any of the above mentioned agencies.

As of 2008, the World Organization for Animal Health recognizes Chinese Taipei as a 'controlled BSE risk region' (Office of International des Epizooties, 2008).

An internal risk analysis was performed by the Chinese Government in 2000 entitled, Risk Analysis and Assessment of BSE in China. Some key highlights from this analysis for China have been reported by Ozawa (2003) (Table 1) as well as for Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei (Table 2). It is evident from Table 1 that China reacted to the outbreak of BSE by placing various bans such as feed ban, MBM ban and making BSE a notifiable disease in 1990. China has been carrying out passive surveillance since 1997 and made it more comprehensive by including an active surveillance stream in the year 2000.

But what is notable about China and Hong Kong is the absence of SRM ban whereas data on a similar ban was not available for Chinese Taipei. Ozawa (2003) also noted some disparities in the instituted prevention policies between China, Chinese Taipei, and Hong Kong (Table 1 and Table 2) namely a MBM ban and rendering conditions. Hong Kong relies on voluntary ban on feeding cattle ruminant derived meat and bone meal. Information on national rendering conditions could not be gathered for China. 3.1

Import of cattle and beef from BSE-affected countries China imports live cattle for breeding purposes. Importation of breeding cattle from EU countries (France and Germany), North America (the USA and Canada), and Japan continued until the first case of BSE was reported in these countries. As shown in Figure 1, a total of 6,720 live cattle were imported during the period 1990 to 2003 from countries that later reported BSE (United States Department of Agriculture, 2004a, 2005, 2007; Smith, 2001). Another source reported the country had imported 2,863 breeding cattle from Japan, Canada, the USA and Australia between 1992 to 1999 (China Daily, 2001). Regardless of the number, the fact remains that China did import a large number of live cattle during the 1990s from countries that later reported BSE.

BSE and vCJD risk management strategies in the People's Republic of China 309 Table 2 Data on BSE preventive measures in Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei Cattle import Feed ban MBM ban SRM ban Surveillance and monitoring Rendering Public awareness programs Hong Kong None No official ban No official ban (rely on voluntary bans since 2001) No official ban BSE was not a notifiable disease until 2003 Ruminant material not rendered; sent to landfills None 1997 – Ban on use of ruminant derived MBM in feed Chinese Taipei None 2001 – ban on use of animal protein 1990 – Ban on import of MBM from BSE affected countries No data 1990 – BSE made notifiable Rendering at 133°C/3bar/ 20 minute 1990 – Programs in place Source: Data summarised from Ozawa (2003)

(3) (PDF) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk management strategies in the People's Republic of China. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/.../264815349_Bovine...[accessed Dec 29 2021].

https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJRAM.2010.035273

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264815349_Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy_and_variant_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease_risk_management_strategies_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

***> However, a GBR risk assessment was not conducted for China by any of the above mentioned agencies.

Animal Health Status of Regions

Last Modified: Sep 22, 2021

Regions classified by APHIS as having either negligible risk or controlled risk for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) 9 CFR 92.5

NO LISTING OF BSE RISK FACTOR FOR CHINA; SEE;

BSE RISK ASSESSMENT PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA ??? not listed!

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wcm/conn...us-of-regions/animal-health-status-of-regions

Spongiform encephalopathies in mainland China

Chang-Kai Sun Xiao-Qin Chong Yuan-Gui Huang

Published:August 24, 1996DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(05)64699-5

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and a new variant of human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the UK have had international medical, economic, and political repercussions. 1 , 2 Not a single case of BSE or scrapie has been reported in the People's Republic of China. Yet more than 30 confirmed and probably naturally occurring, sporadic or family, cases of spongiform encephalopathy including more than 20 cases of CJD and five of the slower progressing Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, have been described since 1980. None of the patients had a history of ever having received any probable contaminated medical treatment. Nor were they medical workers who had ever contacted any person with spongiform encephalopathy. The onset of progressive neuropsychiatric dysfunction at an early or late age is rare in these cases. However, there were six cases of spongy degeneration of the brain in infancy reported 12 years ago. 3

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)64699-5/fulltext

Published: 18 October

2008 Surveillance for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in China from 2006 to 2007

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-8-360

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