From: Will Vacher <WVacher-AT-clifton-college.avon.sch.uk>
Subject: RE: <no subject>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:21:46 -0000


Havent we already recieved this?

but thanks anyway

Bil

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> 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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