Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:12:08 -0600 (CST)
From: GERARDO DE LA FUENTE <gdfl-AT-servidor.unam.mx>
Subject: Re: <no subject>


At 08:47 PM 9/11/00 +1000, you wrote:
>on 8/11/2000 7:02 AM, sdv at steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com wrote:
>
>> All
>> 
>> The below are [snips] from Promed these emails are evidence in the
>> ongoing uncovering of the lies and evasions which science and
>> technologists have committed related to the BSE food scare. The
>> interesting thing here is that the audience who were 'lied to' by the
>> science and technologists concerned seem more capable of dealing with
>> probability than the trained scientific community.
>> 
>> regards
>> 
>> sdv
>> ************************************************
>> [1]
>> From: Chris Griot <griot-AT-freesurf.ch>
>> Date: 21 Oct 2000
>> Source: BBC News, 21 Oct 2000 [edited]
>> 
>> 
>> Suspect beef triggers French BSE scare. The suspect beef was sold in
>> French
>> supermarkets. The authorities in France say one of the leading
>> supermarket
>> chains, Carrefour, has sold up to a ton of beef which may be infected
>> with
>> Mad Cow Disease, or BSE (Bovine spongiform Encephalopathy). The
>> authorities
>> say the beef came from a herd of 13 cattle which was slaughtered earlier
>> 
>> this month.
>> 
>> Tests later showed one of the animals had the disease, but by then meat
>> from the other animals was already on sale in 39 Carrefour supermarkets.
>> A
>> cattle trader, his wife and son and a farm worker were detained for
>> questioning, a prosecutor in the western town of Bernay said. The trader
>> 
>> faces possible charges of selling goods liable to endanger health.
>> Eating
>> beef infected with BSE can cause a similar brain disease in humans.
>> 
>> The French Green party has demanded an immediate ban on the feeding of
>> animal products to other animals, after a report cast doubt on French
>> efforts to stop transmission of the disease. France banned the use of
>> meat
>> and bone meal (MBM) in foodstuffs for cattle herds in 1990, amid fears
>> they
>> played a key role in transmitting BSE. But the Liberation daily said the
>> 
>> state consumer fraud agency, which checks compliance with the 1990 law,
>> had
>> tolerated MBM in cattle feed for at least 2 years, however at levels of
>> less than 0.3%. Unlike Britain, France - which refuses to lift its ban
>> on
>> UK beef imports in defiance of an European Commission ruling - does not
>> bar
>> all cattle over the age of 30 months from human consumption. Under the
>> 30-month rule, all cows in the UK over this age have to be slaughtered
>> and
>> their carcasses incinerated.
>> 
>> -
>> From: M. Cosgriff <mcosgriff-AT-hotmail.com> and Marjorie P. Pollack
>> <pollackmp-AT-mindspring.com>
>> Source: Reuters, 27 Oct 2000 [edited]
>> 
>> 
>> Seven new cases of mad cow disease in France
>> - ----------------------------------------------
>> France reported 7 more cases of BSE amid growing consumer fears after
>> supermarkets unknowingly sold beef potentially contaminated with the
>> deadly, brain-wasting disease. The new discoveries brought to 78 the
>> total
>> number of cases of BSE reported this year in France. Last year, France
>> reported 30 cases of BSE. Of the 7 new cases, 6 were detected under the
>> traditional surveillance system while the seventh was spotted under the
>> country's new BSE testing program launched in June.
>> 
>> Authorities destroyed all 7 cattle as well as their herds, for a total
>> of
>> 531 animals. 3 retail chains earlier this week alerted customers they
>> had
>> sold beef from a herd in western France containing a cow suffering from
>> BSE. Approximately 10 makers of tripe and animal feed also received
>> offal
>> and meat products from the same BSE-tainted herd, prompting a scramble
>> to
>> track down contaminated food.
>> 
>> The revelations have forced the government to consider taking more
>> precautions against the spread of the disease, such as banning the
>> feeding
>> of animal products to other animals. Currently, France only bans the use
>> of
>> such products in cattle feed.
>> 
>> There have also been calls for a more systematic program of testing
>> cattle
>> for BSE. Farm Minister Jean Glavany said the government was leaning
>> towards
>> testing the 5 to 6 million cattle slaughtered in France each year, but
>> it
>> would take time to set up the necessary infrastructure and the tests
>> were
>> not fully reliable.
>> 
>> - -
>> ProMED-mail
>> <promed-AT-promedmail.org>
>> 
>> ***
>> From: George A. Robertson <grobertson-AT-rcn.com>
>> Source: Associate Press, 28 Oct 2000 [edited]
>> 
>> 
>> Teen-Age Girl Latest Victim of Human Form of Mad Cow Disease
>> - --------------------------------------------------------------
>> LONDON -A 14-year-old girl became the latest person to die of new
>> variant
>> Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD or vCJD), the human form of mad cow
>> (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE). The victim died at her home in
>> Wigan in northern England, just days after her family allowed television
>> 
>> cameras to record her plight. She was seen lying virtually motionless in
>> bed.
>> 
>> The British government this week promised millions of dollars in
>> compensation for families stricken by the disease. It released an
>> independent report Thursday showing officials were slow to respond to
>> evidence of its threat to human health.
>> 
>> It said mistakes were made in the handling of the crisis, including a
>> 6-month delay in informing the public about the disease after government
>> 
>> scientists identified it in late 1995, for fear of causing panic and
>> damaging British trade.
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