USDA BEEF DEAL WITH KOREA AND the truth, what the usda et al are not telling you...

greetings kind people of korea,

 

i wish to send this data to you in good faith and peace.

 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Humane Society releases new video of mistreated livestock downed cows "Every place that we looked, we found downed animals,"

 

 

Monday, May 5, 2008

 

STATEMENT OF DR. RICHARD RAYMOND USDA UNDERSECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY Regarding the Safety of the U.S. Food Supply

 

please see full text with some additional information the good Dr. Raymond seems to have forgotten about ;

 

 

Prion surveillance in cattle has been reduced by 90% (from about 470,000 to 40,000 in the U.S. in 2007 out of about 35 million cattle slaughtered). Termination of human prion surveillance would therefore remove the second line of surveillance, thereby eliminating prion surveillance in the U.S. entirely. This development would be extremely worrisome in view of recent reports that precautions to limit the spread of the prion infectious agent may not have been followed in some slaughter houses in the U.S. Cattle affected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) continue to be discovered in Canada, which has more rigorous BSE surveillance than the U.S. At the same time, Canada imposes few limitations in the trade of potentially prion-infectious cattle with the U.S.

 

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Atypical forms of BSE have emerged which, although rare, appear to be more virulent than the classical BSE that causes vCJD.

 

Sincerely, Pierluigi Gambetti, MD Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

 

Stephen M. Sergay, MB, BCh President, American Academy of Neurology

 

 

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

 

MAD COW DISEASE terminology UK c-BSE (typical), atypical BSE H or L, and or Italian L-BASE

 

 

THE only fool is one who fools himself, and GW and his administration and their junk science will fool humans for just so long, then the incubation will catch up. none of this was about science, it was all about commodities and futures and the exporting of beef. nothing else mattered, literally, just ask old stanley prusiner the nobel prize winner for the PRION, what did old stan say ;

 

STANLEY PRUSINER NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER ON THE PRION

 

US AG SEC AND LAYCRAFT

 

“nothing matters, except beef from Canada under 30 months bone in beef product, that’s ALL THAT MATTERS!”

 

US SENATOR AND STAN THE MAN SLAM USDA ”DAMNING TESTIMONY”

 

Senator Michael Machado from California

 

”USDA does not know what’s going on”. ”USDA is protecting the industry”. ” SHOULD the state of California step in”

 

Stanley Prusiner

 

”nobody has ever ask us to comment”

 

”they don’t want us to comment”

 

”they never ask”

 

i tried to see Venemon, after Canadian cow was discovered with BSE. went to see lyle. after talking with him…

 

absolute ignorance…

 

then thought i should see Venemon…

 

it was clear his entire policy was to get cattle boneless beef prods across the border…

 

nothing else mattered…

 

his aids confirmed this…

 

5 times i tried to see Venemon, never worked…

 

eventually met with carl rove the political…

 

he is the one that arranged meeting with Venemon…

 

just trying to give you a sense of the distance…

 

threat to health public safety…

 

was never contacted…

 

yes i believe that prions are bad to eat and you can die from them…END

 

Dr. Stan bashing Ann Veneman - 3 minutes - Damning testimony

 

 

File Name: USDA DON'T ASK DON'T TELL POLICY 02snip.rpm

 

DAMNING testimony of consumer consumption of Washington mad cow in California

 

 

In this context, a word is in order about the US testing program. After the discovery of the first (imported) cow in 2003, the magnitude of testing was much increased, reaching a level of >400,000 tests in 2005 (Figure 4). Neither of the 2 more recently indigenously infected older animals with nonspecific clinical features would have been detected without such testing, and neither would have been identified as atypical without confirmatory Western blots. Despite these facts, surveillance has now been decimated to 40,000 annual tests (USDA news release no. 0255.06, July 20, 2006) and invites the accusation that the United States will never know the true status of its involvement with BSE.

 

In short, a great deal of further work will need to be done before the phenotypic features and prevalence of atypical BSE are understood. More than a single strain may have been present from the beginning of the epidemic, but this possibility has been overlooked by virtue of the absence of widespread Western blot confirmatory testing of positive screening test results; or these new phenotypes may be found, at least in part, to result from infections at an older age by a typical BSE agent, rather than neonatal infections with new "strains" of BSE. Neither alternative has yet been investigated.

 

 

CDC DR. PAUL BROWN TSE EXPERT COMMENTS 2006

 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was quick to assure the public earlier this week that the third case of mad cow disease did not pose a risk to them, but what federal officials have not acknowledged is that this latest case indicates the deadly disease has been circulating in U.S. herds for at least a decade.

 

The second case, which was detected last year in a Texas cow and which USDA officials were reluctant to verify, was approximately 12 years old.

 

These two cases (the latest was detected in an Alabama cow) present a picture of the disease having been here for 10 years or so, since it is thought that cows usually contract the disease from contaminated feed they consume as calves. The concern is that humans can contract a fatal, incurable, brain-wasting illness from consuming beef products contaminated with the mad cow pathogen.

 

"The fact the Texas cow showed up fairly clearly implied the existence of other undetected cases," Dr. Paul Brown, former medical director of the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory for Central Nervous System Studies and an expert on mad cow-like diseases, told United Press International. "The question was, 'How many?' and we still can't answer that."

 

Brown, who is preparing a scientific paper based on the latest two mad cow cases to estimate the maximum number of infected cows that occurred in the United States, said he has "absolutely no confidence in USDA tests before one year ago" because of the agency's reluctance to retest the Texas cow that initially tested positive.

 

USDA officials finally retested the cow and confirmed it was infected seven months later, but only at the insistence of the agency's inspector general.

 

"Everything they did on the Texas cow makes everything USDA did before 2005 suspect," Brown said. ...snip...end

 

 

CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt ... Dr. Paul Brown is Senior Research Scientist in the Laboratory of Central Nervous System ... Address for correspondence: Paul Brown, Building 36, Room 4A-05, ...

 

 

PAUL BROWN COMMENT TO ME ON THIS ISSUE

 

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:10 AM

 

"Actually, Terry, I have been critical of the USDA handling of the mad cow issue for some years, and with Linda Detwiler and others sent lengthy detailed critiques and recommendations to both the USDA and the Canadian Food Agency."

 

 

Audit Report

 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

 

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program - Phase II

 

and

 

Food Safety and Inspection Service

 

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat Recovery Products - Phase III

 

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

 

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle Still Remain

 

Our prior report identified a number of inherent problems in identifying and testing high-risk cattle. We reported that the challenges in identifying the universe of high-risk cattle, as well as the need to design procedures to obtain an appropriate representation of samples, was critical to the success of the BSE surveillance program. The surveillance program was designed to target nonambulatory cattle, cattle showing signs of CNS disease (including cattle testing negative for rabies), cattle showing signs not inconsistent with BSE, and dead cattle. Although APHIS designed procedures to ensure FSIS condemned cattle were sampled and made a concerted effort for outreach to obtain targeted samples, industry practices not considered in the design of the surveillance program reduced assurance that targeted animals were tested for BSE.

 

USDA/OIG-A/50601-10-KC Page 27

 

observe these animals ante mortem when possible to assure the animals from the target population are ultimately sampled and the clinical signs evaluated.

 

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Alzheimer's and CJD

 

 

Saturday, March 22, 2008

 

10 Million Baby Boomers to have Alzheimer's in the coming decades 2008 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures

 

 

re-Association between Deposition of Beta-Amyloid and Pathological Prion Protein in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

 

 

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

 

Interference at the EPA - Science and Politics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

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Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Baycliff, Texas USA 77518