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From: TSS ()
Subject: STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 25, AUGUST 1995
Date: March 23, 2005 at 2:43 pm PST

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Subject: STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 25, AUGUST 1995
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:07:27 -0600
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
To: BSE-L@KALIV.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE

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STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL 25, AUGUST 1995

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To minimise the risk of farmers' claims for compensation from feed
compounders.

To minimise the potential damage to compound feed markets through
adverse publicity.

To maximise freedom of action for feed compounders, notably by
maintaining the availability of meat and bone meal as a raw
material in animal feeds, and ensuring time is available to make any
changes which may be required.

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THE FUTURE

4..........

MAFF remains under pressure in Brussels and is not skilled at
handling potentially explosive issues.

5. Tests _may_ show that ruminant feeds have been sold which
contain illegal traces of ruminant protein. More likely, a few positive
test results will turn up but proof that a particular feed mill knowingly
supplied it to a particular farm will be difficult if not impossible.

6. The threat remains real and it will be some years before feed
compounders are free of it. The longer we can avoid any direct
linkage between feed milling _practices_ and actual BSE cases,
the more likely it is that serious damage can be avoided. ...

SEE full text ;

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/08/24002001.pdf

TSS

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