Yea now our cattle industry will be Fu&ed again!

[Braveheart]

Also, the media is useless!

[binthere]

sk3 the cattle industry will not be efft again. save your panic for grain farming. the cfia is portraying proper tranparency with this isolated case. is this not something you are always griping for in the grain industry whether in input purchases or marketing. by locating and erradicating potential disease and publicizing the matter will only help to maintain consumer confidence in the canadian beef industry. one industry which is doing quite fine now and for the time being does not need your help.

[newguy]

Kind of like spilling milk. Wipe it up quick before it hits the floor.. No need to write off the house cause of spilled milk SK Farmer..

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

"One has to wonder if the CFIA is just blustering publicly to justify their existence."

Not a very smart comment on your behalf. You don't remember the Listeriosis out break when 18 Canadians died. You and Ritz are a good match. You should focus on writing poetry.

[Braveheart]

What does doing the job to ensure food safety have to do with press conferences, grandstanding, and media attention. Nothing. Useless media attention vs attention to the entails of just doing the job.

The guy in charge of the CFIA in 2003, Bryan something, used a bad event to catapult himself into spotlight before sailing into retirement. He sunk the industry deeper than needed and took a powder.

They just need to to their job and shut up.

Keep on foraging.

[grassfarmer]

wmoebis and braveheart we have to comply with OIE rules (the international governing body) - part of that is highlighting cases when they are discovered.
Not sure I follow your comment on not catching things before they hit the store shelves - all the ecoli in beef recalls have been identified in this manner.

food4U - It was "location, location" I think. Presumed cause of the CDN cases was cohorts of the original cow imported from the UK that got BSE in the 1990s. That stuff went into the rendering process, likely right here in AB and the milk replacer produced from it would be consumed locally. Don't think there is any conspiracy that there weren't cases in ON/QC.

Similarly I don't think they got the cases in North Africa that might have been expected using the British meat and bone meal because they used that in a different way - not in the manufacture of milk replacer which is the route of spread.

[wmoebis]

THX grassfarmer. My statement was referring to in the last 4 months there were 118 recalls but only 46 were made public.
Wasn't aware of protocols and compliance's that had to be followed.

[Braveheart]

Yes grassfarmer, thanks for the clarification. I agree that this is a non event. Therefore I wonder can highlighting a case be reporting the case to whatever reporting body without the media circus of a news conference?

[grassfarmer]

Yeah the OIE is a strange one - they seem to have so much power and transcend international borders yet I've never been aware of them involved in any issue as much as they have been with BSE.
Here is their response to the latest BSE case:

PARIS (Reuters) - Canada's discovery of a case of mad cow disease is in line with its "controlled risk" status and will not force a change in that status, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Friday.

"The detection and notification of the new BSE case provides the international community with the assurance and evidence of the effectiveness of health surveillance systems in place, and Canada's commitment to meet its transparency obligations in terms of disease notifications to the OIE," an OIE spokeswoman said in an emailed response to Reuters.

On Friday, Canada confirmed its first case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), since 2011 but said the discovery, which helped drive cattle prices higher, should not hit its beef export sector.

[foragefarmer]

Braveheart

Again, shouldn't the public know that CFIA is doing their job at ensuring food safety? How else can the public know this without media coverage? I, who buy Canadian beef want to know CFIA is doing their job. It is very reassuring.