- These are just some of the animal products from the US
that Canada has banned. I assume they have no problem letting Canadians
consume 'home-grown' versions of these products. Note that included in
the ban are 'rendered animal protein products... from any species including
porcine or avian' and for 'all end uses including for aquaculture' (eg
fish farms)... and fertilizers! My comments are in square brackets:
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- Ruminant Derived:
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- * ruminant edible meat and meat products including by-products,
fat, tallow [burgers, sausages, processed meats, etc]
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- * animal vaccines containing ruminant-derived products
[but not human vaccines?]
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- * ruminant derived gelatin and collagen (except if derived
exclusively from ruminant hides and skins) [would this include nutritional
supplements made with animal gelcaps, and other gelatin-containing products
such as Jello?]
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- All Species Derived:
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- Importation of rendered animal protein products including
blood meal, meat and bone meal, spray dried blood and feather meal, from
any species including porcine or avian from the U.S.A. is also temporarily
suspended. This applies to all end uses including for aquaculture. Any
products containing such as the above are also affected by these measures,
includes for instance:
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- * pet foods
- * tallow
- * fertilizers
- * livestock, animal feeds containing rendered animal
- proteins
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- Exemptions:
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- * boneless beef from cattle less than thirty (30) months
of age (subject to the development of appropriate administrative and legal
procedures).
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- [Let me get this straight... boneless beef from a cow
aged 30 months less one day is safe, but boneless beef from a cow aged
30 months is NOT safe??]
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- http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/
bseesb/americ/imprestricte.shtml
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- Comment
- From Patricia Doyle, PhD
- dr_p_doyle@hotmail.com
- 1-4-4
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- Helllo, Jeff -
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- I don't think that we can be sure that cattle under age
30 months are safe. The government would like us to believe that prion
disease is problematic when a cow reachs day 1 after 30 months of age and
before that time the cow is safe and prion free.
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- This is simply not true. There is a good chance that
a calf might have been exposed to misfolded prions when given blood meal/plasma
serums to supplement protein. Another risk is animal vaccines given to
young calfs.
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- There is also a verticle risk that most "prionologists"
refuse to admit. We KNOW that mutated prions have been found in placenta
and it is (in my opinion) more then theorectical risk that prion disease
can transmit vertically from parent to calf.
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- To be accurate, one can state that prion disease might
be asymptomatic prior to 30 months. This does not mean that prion disease
is not incubating.
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- We also need to know more about the calfs, re: birthing
and insemination. We know that deer have contracted prion disease, i.e.
Chronic Wasting Disease which is mad cow disease of deer, by mothers eating
the afterbirth. Make no mistake, prions are in the placenta and, therefore,
there is a risk of transmission to calfs.
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- ....and what about one day over 30 months, as the article
points out?
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- Patricia Doyle
- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
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