REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE TWELFTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA

[flounder]

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/ab2008/12investe.shtml



What's New - Archives - July 2008

31-July-2008
a.. Food and Veterinary Office - Inspection reports

CA Canada - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)


http://ec.europa.eu/food/dyna/whatsnew/whatsnew_archive_food.cfm


Canada Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse) 2007/7247

http://ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/act_getPDF.cfm?PDF_ID=6796


COMPETENT AUTHORITY RESPONSE TO RECOMMENDATIONS

http://ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/ap/ap_canada_7247_2007.pdf


Please click on the link below to open the Action Plan:

Annex A: Factual Corrections to Draft Report of FVO Mission Number DG(SANCO)/2007-7247: Mission to evaluate measures concerning BSE in Canada

http://ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/act_getPDFannx.cfm?ANX_ID=5734


ANNEX B Response of the Competent Authorities of Canada to the recommendations of Mission report ref. DG (SANCO)/2007-7247 - in order to evaluate measures concerning BSE - received on 27 May 2008

http://ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/ap/ap_canada_7247_2007.pdf



Scientific Report of the European Food Safety Authority on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE Risk (GBR) of Canada Question number: EFSA-Q-2003-083 Adopted date: 01/07/2004 Summary (0.1Mb)


The European Food Safety Authority and its Scientific Expert Working Group on the Assessment of the Geographical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Risk (GBR) were asked to provide an up-to-date scientific report on the GBR in Canada, i.e. the likelihood of the presence of one or more cattle being infected with BSE, pre-clinically as well as clinically, in Canada. This scientific report addresses the GBR of Canada as assessed in 2004 based on data covering the period 1980-2003.

The BSE agent was probably imported into the country middle of the eighties and could have reached domestic cattle in the early nineties. These cattle imported in the mid eighties could have been rendered in the late eighties and therefore led to an internal challenge in the early 90s. It is possible that imported meat and bone meal (MBM) into Canada reached domestic cattle and led to an internal challenge in the early 90s.

A certain risk that BSE-infected cattle entered processing in Canada, and were at least partly rendered for feed, occurred in the early 1990s when cattle imported from UK in the mid 80s could have been slaughtered. This risk continued to exist, and grew significantly in the mid 90's when domestic cattle, infected by imported MBM, reached processing. Given the low stability of the system, the risk increased over the years with continued imports of cattle and MBM from BSE risk countries.

EFSA concludes that the current GBR level of Canada is III, i.e. it is confirmed at a lower level that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSE-agent. As long as the system remains unstable, it is expected that the GBR continues to grow, even if no additional external challenges occur.

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http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/Scientific_Document/sr02_biohaz02_canada_report_annex_en1.pdf?ssbinary =true


Publication date: 20/08/2004 Last updated: 08/09/2004

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_1178620779443.htm


SUMMARY

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/Scientific_Document/sr06_biohaz02_canada_report_summary_v2_en1.pdf?ssb inary=true


DOCUMENT

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/Scientific_Document/sr02_biohaz02_canada_report_v2_en1.pdf?ssbinary=tr ue


Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Audit says USDA lost track of imported cattle Report No. 50601-0012-Ch March 2008

http://usdameatexport.blogspot.com/2008/07/audit-says-usda-lost-track-of-imported.html


for those that might be interested, you can read the full text here ;





REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE TWELFTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA Thursday, July 31, 2008


http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/2008/07/report-on-investigation-of-twelfth-case.html



kind regards,
terry

[Kathy]

Where's the article on how the CFIA sends our BSE carcasses to Lethbridge for "incineration"?

Heck, I know I said I'd ignore you here, but you make it so much fun.

The metallomicrocrystals which are the cause of prion diseases cannot be destroyed by incineration. (unpublished data has stated that 2000 degrees Celcius was still ineffective) The CFIA knows this. So what is their agenda, if they are still incinerating the carcasses in Lethbridge?

Perhaps they are soaking the carcass (which is probably ground up first) with CREOSOTE to destroy the prions prior to incineration. Either way, the metal nucleating particles will not be captured in the incinerator stack and will add to the burden of toxic metals in the nearby environment.

Swann Hills Incinerator was a major contributor; but it appears due to the lack of more positive farmed elk/deer down-wind, that they must have stopped burning some of the more toxic garbage (munitions perhaps).

I suspect, as you do flounder, that more BSE cases will turn up. The feed ban will be questioned, ranchers will be blamed for "feeding something" to their animals... and government will continue on its path of destroying independent ranching operations, so they can take control of meat production.

That's why the AB Animal Health Act sits unproclaimed, as of yet. The "strategy" is to be implemented as "regulations" under this ACT - so a gov. employee stated. It refers to "premises" and "premise ID" (apprx 90 times) but has no "definition" for either. (Definitions must be in the act). This is why they want ranchers/feedlots and packers to voluntarily sign up for a premise ID number. Then, under Section 43(4) of the Animal Health Act, the Minister of Agriculture can deside who needs to have a license to operate.

The majority of the references to Premise ID, or premises, in this ACT are prefixed by the word "quarantined". That is what the AB Livestock and Meat Strategy is about. Voluntary compliance is like suicide (for those that like their independence and freedom).