Minority Government

[BWC]

Hey not to worry about the misread if I could type or write worth a rip there would'nt have been a problem.Also did some research on quick tests from two suppliers of the USDA, BIO- RAD, and Prionics INC., and their disclaimers have them covered for a much larger rate than 1 in 10,000 false positives.
I guess the deeper I dig the higher the walls get, but I'm not throwing out the shovel yet. I am still of the opinion that the Americans have to be very careful with the science, if they get caught in any discrepecy in their testing it will immediately blow their credibility to the rest of the world. Remember that the hard line that the Japanese are taking on testing was mostly because their government tried to keep their original BSE under wraps, and it almost cost them their jobs.
Right now the Americans feel very safe because they can consume what they produce, but if they botch consumer confidence. They could be faced with the same situation that the Japanese were.

[BWC]

How about this little rumor.

Rumors are racing even more on this one (Is
there a leak at the USDA?), like suggestions the animal involved is an 8-year
old cow from Idaho that tested positive as many as three times with rapid test
kits. We don't know if any of this is true, but can report with certainty that
such ideas are now in wide circulation. Such thinking/expectations/fears could
skew cash and futures trading through the end of the week. Assuming it takes
about the same amount of time to get final results on the second inconclusive
as it did on the first (about 5 days), USDA may have nothing to say in this
regard until Sunday or Monday.

[grassfarmer]

Quite believe it RPK, with Sunday being 4th July it could be a good day to sneak out the news - almost as good as on the eve of Christmas! worrying that it comes from Idaho that's too close to Canada.

[rsomer]

Lets hope the next BSE positive whether it is this one or another is a cow about 8 years old or older. If an animal that was born after the ban on feeding ruminant protein is found positive it will be a entirely different problem than finding an older cow.

[kato]

Idaho's too close to Canada for me to feel to comfortable.

Mind you, there's no news of the CFIA being contacted yet. They were contacted within a day of the Washington cow.

I guess no news is good news.