From: TSS (216-119-163-188.ipset45.wt.net)
Subject: Re: BSE .1 GRAM LETHAL NEW STUDY SAYS via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts [USA MBM/GREAVES IMPORTS] what plan?
Date: February 3, 2003 at 2:28 pm PST
In Reply to: Re: BSE .1 GRAM LETHAL NEW STUDY SAYS via W.H.O. Dr Maura Ricketts [USA MBM/GREAVES IMPORTS] posted by TSS on February 3, 2003 at 1:34 pm:
> Also a minute dated 3rd October, 1988 (YB88/10.3/7.1-7.4)
> from Mr rawford to me describes a visit by Mr Crawford to
> the USA to meet staff at the Animal and Plant Health
> Inspection Service. As item number 7 of the minute shows,
> Mr Crawford gave a summary of BSE and the measures taken
> by MAFF to ‘investigate and eradicate it’(YB88/10.3/7.3).’[84]
if you read below, from the blank pages, evidently they
had no plan, cause they imported 20 tons a year later,
stupid me;
VISIT TO USA 26/28 SEPTEMBER 1988
BLANK PAGE
BLANK PAGE
snip...
There was no suggestion that the States are intending to
impose import controls but I was asked which countries had
done so...
snip...
If there is any suspicion that BSE exists in cattle in the
USA, no one was prepared to admit to it.
http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1988/10/03007001.pdf
TSS
