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EUROPE
DG SANCO, 20/01/05 Biological Safety - BSE/Scrapie - TSE in Goats
Are goat milk, cheese and meat safe ? updated information
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/food/biosafety/bse/goats_index_en.htm
DG SANCO, 19/01/05 Biological Safety - BSE - Legislation -
Chronological list updated
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/food/biosafety/bse/legisl_en.htm
DG SANCO, 19/01/05 Biological Safety - BSE - Monthly Reports for BSE in
2004
BSE cases in cattle over the last 12 months; Cumulative table from
January to October 2004; August-October 2004
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/food/biosafety/bse/mthly_reps_bse2004_en.htm
ADNS : Animal Disease Notification System
Table 11 - 1/1/05 - 21/1/05
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/animal/diseases/adns/table_11_2005/adns_210105_en.pdf
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UK
MEAT NEWS : LOCAL BEEF ONLY
A group of British schools are assured of the source of the beef for meals.
Students eating beef burgers in their school lunch rooms in the English
county of Hampshire know the meat in their burgers came from no further
away than the other end of the county.
http://www.meatnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article&artNum=8903
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ASIA
China, Japan, Taiwan May Drop Canadian-Beef Ban Soon (Update2)
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada expects several Asian markets that banned
Canadian beef after the country reported a case of mad cow disease in
May 2003 to resume imports soon, Canadian Beef Export Federation
President Ted Haney said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=aM3MIhuEC8Us&refer=japan
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NORTH AMERICA
Globe and Mail : Tainted feed possibly sold after ban
By DAWN WALTON
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Calgary — As U.S. investigators travelled north yesterday to assess the
steps Canada has taken to prevent mad-cow disease, Ottawa for the first
time raised the possibility that manufacturers pumped out tainted
livestock feed after such practices were banned.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050125.wxfeed25/BNStory/National/
Edmonton Sun : Inspectors to probe feed
OTTAWA -- No feed bag - or cat dish - will be left unturned as the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency probes what cattle on a central Alberta
farm may have eaten to trigger a case of mad cow disease. Federal
inspectors will even comb through the kibble fed to barn cats for
possible traces of BSE, Brian Evans, chief veterinary officer for the
CFIA, said yesterday.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/01/25/909345-sun.html
CFCN.ca, Monday, January 24
Mad cow case linked to feed
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says Canada's second case of mad cow
was caused by contaminated feed.
http://cfcn.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/B/20050124/madcowfeed?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&slug=madcowfeed&date=20050124&archive=CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=home&subnav=fullstory
Meatingplace.com : LEGAL/REGULATORY NEWS
Beef trade with Japan is 'priority one,' Johanns says
by John Gregerson on 1/25/05 for Meatingplace.com
Though he couldn't say when Japan would resume buying U.S. beef,
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns vowed to make the issue "priority
one" during his first news conference Monday.
http://www.meatingplace.com/DailyNews/init.asp?iID=13728
Meatingplace.com : Consumers Union blasts FDA
by Pete Hisey on 1/25/05 for Meatingplace.com
James Guest, president of the Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer
Reports, and the organization's chief medical adviser, Marvin M. Lipman,
M.D., recently leveled a blast at the "rudderless, leaderless" U.S. Food
and Drug Administration over its handling of both drug safety and food
safety.
http://www.meatingplace.com/DailyNews/init.asp?iID=13727
REUTERS, Mon Jan 24, By Gilbert Le Gras
Canada Confident U.S. to Open Border to Beef March 7
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is confident the United States will open its
border to Canadian beef and cattle as planned on March 7 despite the
discovery of two cases of mad cow disease in Canada in the past month,
top animal health officials said on Monday.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050124/wl_canada_nm/canada_madcow_us_col_1
Billings Gazette, R-CALF contesting open border
Knight Ridder News
DENVER, Colo. (AP) - The United States faces a likely influx of mad cow
disease if the government opens the border to Canadian cattle imports,
three speakers said during a livestock group convention in Denver.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/25/build/business/45-open-border.inc
Inspectors leaving no cat dish unturned in checking cattle feed for BSE
Canadian Press, Monday, January 24, 2005, Sandra Cordon
OTTAWA (CP) - No feed bag - or cat dish - will be left unturned as the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency probes what cattle on a central Alberta
farm may have eaten to trigger a case of mad cow disease.
http://www.canada.com/health/story.html?id=dcee0c46-ac15-4ca5-8d8a-5c88c77ab640
Washington Post, Tuesday, January 25, 2005, By Christopher Lee
USDA Chief Sets Sights on Beef Exports
Johanns Wants Japan To Lift 13-Month Ban
New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure yesterday by
pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative
market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad
cow disease in this country in December 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33592-2005Jan24.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Monday, January 24, 2005
Johanns to review of Canada cattle trade
By LIBBy QUAID
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his new job
Monday caught in a dispute between meatpackers and some ranchers over
reopening U.S. borders to cattle from Canada.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&slug=Johanns%20Mad%20Cow
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RESEARCH
BSE may be more dangerous than thought: Swiss study
by Pete Hisey on 1/24/05 for Meatingplace.com
A new study conducted by medical researchers in Switzerland indicates
that the list of specified risk materials (SRMs) that makes up the
firewall against human infection from bovine spongiform encephalopathy
may be far from complete.
http://www.meatingplace.com/DailyNews/init.asp?iID=13723
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