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R-CALF USDA’s New BSE Rule Eliminates Important Protections
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<blockquote data-quote="flounder" data-source="post: 928000" data-attributes="member: 3519"><p>Saturday, May 26, 2012</p><p> </p><p>Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'? </p><p></p><p>snip...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What irks many scientists is the USDA's April 25 statement that the rare disease is "not generally associated with an animal consuming infected feed."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The USDA's conclusion is a "gross oversimplification," said Dr. Paul Brown, one of the world's experts on this type of disease who retired recently from the National Institutes of Health. "(The agency) has no foundation on which to base that statement."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"We can't say it's not feed related," agreed Dr. Linda Detwiler, an official with the USDA during the Clinton Administration now at Mississippi State.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the May 1 email to me, USDA's Cole backed off a bit. "No one knows the origins of atypical cases of BSE," she said</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The argument about feed is critical because if feed is the cause, not a spontaneous mutation, the California cow could be part of a larger outbreak.</p><p></p><p></p><p>see full text ;</p><p></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/are-usda-assurances-on-mad-cow-case.html" target="_blank">http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/are- ... -case.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flounder, post: 928000, member: 3519"] Saturday, May 26, 2012 Are USDA assurances on mad cow case 'gross oversimplification'? snip... What irks many scientists is the USDA’s April 25 statement that the rare disease is “not generally associated with an animal consuming infected feed.” The USDA’s conclusion is a “gross oversimplification,” said Dr. Paul Brown, one of the world’s experts on this type of disease who retired recently from the National Institutes of Health. "(The agency) has no foundation on which to base that statement.” “We can’t say it’s not feed related,” agreed Dr. Linda Detwiler, an official with the USDA during the Clinton Administration now at Mississippi State. In the May 1 email to me, USDA’s Cole backed off a bit. “No one knows the origins of atypical cases of BSE,” she said The argument about feed is critical because if feed is the cause, not a spontaneous mutation, the California cow could be part of a larger outbreak. see full text ; [url=http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/are-usda-assurances-on-mad-cow-case.html]http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2012/05/are- ... -case.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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