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U.S. appeals court OKs Canada beef imports By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court gave the green light on The Montana-based Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Canada had safeguards in place to "Having reviewed the merits of this case, we conclude that the agency The U.S. government imposed a ban on Canadian cattle after Canada found its The USDA appealed to the 9th Circuit, which rejected R-CALF's arguments and A three-judge 9th Circuit panel based in San Francisco re-examined another "R-CALF's extra-record evidence has failed to convince us that the agency's The decision went point by point through R-CALF's arguments but found fault "The agency -- at the time it made its decision -- properly relied on Mad cow disease has infected more than 187,000 cattle over the past two Shae Dodson, a spokeswoman for R-CALF, said the group's board would have to © Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved. http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-08-28T181721Z_01_N28266029_RTRIDST_0_CANADA-CATTLE-TRADE-COURT-COL.XML EFSA Scientific Report on the Assessment of the Geographical BSE-Risk (GBR) of the United States of America (USA) Report 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 by the European Commission (EC) to provide an up-to-date scientific report on the GBR in the United States of America, i.e. the likelihood of the presence of one or more cattle being infected with BSE, pre-clinically as well as clinically, in USA. This scientific report addresses the GBR of USA as assessed in 2004 based on data covering the period 1980-2003. The BSE agent was probably imported into USA and could have reached domestic cattle in the middle of the eighties. 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 nineties. It is possible that imported meat and bone meal (MBM) into the USA reached domestic cattle and leads to an internal challenge in the early nineties. A processing risk developed in the late 80s/early 90s when cattle imports from BSE risk countries were slaughtered or died and were processed (partly) into feed, together with some imports of MBM. 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 USA is III, i.e. it is likely but not confirmed that domestic cattle are (clinically or pre-clinically) infected with the BSE-agent. As long as there are no significant changes in rendering or feeding, the stability remains extremely/very unstable. Thus, the probability of cattle to be (pre-clinically or clinically) infected with the BSE-agent persistently increases. Summary of the Scientific Report 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. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/564.html http://www.efsa.europa.eu/etc/medialib/efsa/science/tse_assessments/gbr_assessments/564.Par.0001.File.dat/sr02_biohaz02_canada_report_v2_en1.pdf thank you, Date: August 25, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST snip... #################################### our results raise the possibility that CJD cases ################################### In conclusion, cross-sequence transmission of REFERENCES...snip...end http://www.biggamehunt.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62733#62733 Subject: MAD COW BASE H-TYPE AND L-TYPE Date: August 23, 2007 at 11:30 am PST From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." As of June 30, 2007, there were ..... snip... One field case and one validation case were consistent with Nor-98 scrapie. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps ''One case was consistent with Nor98 scrapie.'' http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/ NOR98 SHOWS MOLECULAR FEATURES REMINISCENT OF GSS FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP SEAC New forms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1 August 2007 POTENTIAL MAD CAT ESCAPES LAB IN USA http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0708&L=sanet-mg&T=0&P=7062 Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
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