Salmonella Outbreak Among Humans Linked To Tainted Pet Food, But Not Recalled Dog Food
Last Wednesday, Mars Petcare recalled the 50-pound variety of its Red Flannel-brand Large Breed Adult Formula Dry Dog Food and the 5 pound bag of its Krasdale Gravy dog food. Both were recalled because of salmonella contamination.
The Mars Petcare manufacturing plant in Everson, Pennsylvania was linked to the contamination and was closed for inspection and cleaning.
Not only are pets at risk, but there has been an ongoing salmonellosis outbreak among humans. In the past 18 months, 66 people nationwide (25 of those in Pennsylvania) have been sickened by the Salmonella Schwarzengrund bacteria. Federal and state officials link the outbreak to the tainted pet food.
Mars Petcare recalled their pet foods after that same strain of salmonella was found in their products.
Most people that became ill had contact with dry pet food produced at the Mars Petcare plant in Everson, but they were not the two dog foods that were recalled last week. The brands in question have not been identified.
“This is not information that is consistent with our information,” said Mars Petcare spokeswoman Alice Nathanson. She declined to say how many brands of pet foods have been produced at the Everson plant.
Ian Williams, head of the outbreak team at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Enteric Disease Epidemiology Branch, said none of the people that became ill had contact with either of the recalled dog foods. He wondered if there is more contaminated food out there.
The FDA said the source of the Salmonella Schwarzengrund bacteria has not been determined. The agency has finished its investigation and will not plan to test ingredients of any suspect pet foods unless the FDA obtains more information suggesting a possible source.
A FDA spokesperson said pet foods contain some of the same ingredients used in human foods. He added some of the people that became ill did not come in contact with any pet foods.
When asked if there could still be contaminated pet foods out there that haven’t been recalled, he said: “I’m not allowed to make that supposition.”
He said this is the first time human illnesses have been linked to pet food. There has been one outbreak in the US and Canada and two outbreaks just in Canada that have been linked to pet treats.
The FDA will inspect the Everson plant after it reopens.
Source: Daily Courier
(Thanks Irene)
August 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
This is not good!
August 29th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
A FDA spokesperson said pet foods contain some of the same ingredients used in human foods. He added some of the people that became ill did not come in contact with any pet foods.
When asked if there could still be contaminated pet foods out there that haven’t been recalled, he said: “I’m not allowed to make that supposition.â€
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I’m so sick of listening to these jerkwaters come up with more & more ways to get out of answering questions & BE HONEST about anything. Spin spin spin…….the FDA school of omissions, avoidance & spin spin spin……makes me want to either punch somebody or throw up……..
August 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Made _me_ want to file some complaints!
One media outlet has been reporting the recall news and luckily, they have an area to file consumer complaints.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com…..lls69.html
At the bottom of the page is a link to file your complaint.
And there is this link where you can file a complaint and it will REMAIN in the file for that company until the MATTER IS RESOLVED, the companies might not respond to you, but they do not like having the complaints on file.
http://www.bbb.org/
August 29th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
oh god…we just can’t win
so now not only can my critters drop dead from eating pet food, so can I? Nice.
(not that I eat pet food of course, but, handle it, yes)
August 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Yeah we can, just have to DO something!
This story, that I posted on..other places has had over 200 views in the last hour. And MANY replies about filing complaints.
http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/1765
That 6.97 refund on a 1,200 vet bill is certainly making folks that can count kinda mad! And now they KNOW EXACTLY what guaranteed means to a pet food company.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Now there’s another samonella outbreak with packaged greens - just on the news - and I think it was Spinach that was packaged under several labels.
Gads - what is a person to eat? Cook it all good! Maybe that will help.
August 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Or get all distracted and do… nothing.
Makes you wonder about some things, doesn’t it?
And who is to say whether the salmonella came from greens or pet food? The FDA ?
And what are YOU going to DO about it?
Make a complaint..or…
August 29th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Subject: Fw: Iam’s & Eukanuba Canned Food Problems
I just received this email:
I just received this important messages and wants to share with you.
From: Wilma’s Pack
>To: wilma’s orphans
>Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:32 PM
>Subject: Fw: Iam’s &Eukanuba Canned Food Problems
>This is a member of our kennel club in Altoona! Please read this!
>Hello Everyone, I want to warn everyone about IAM’S Canned Food.
>My friend bought a case of Iam’s canned two weeks ago. She fed this to two litters of pups…one litter 12/wks, another 5/months. Within 3/days all were not well, no vomiting, no diarrhea, no temperature.
The Vet tested for everything.. .all came back negative. Pups literally faded away and 6/died!
>
>They were necropsy’s and the livers/kidneys sent to the lab for toxicology testing and found lesions on the livers, and also Aflotoxin poisoning.
>
>My friend found the last can in her garbage can and had that tested also – came back Aflotoxin.
>Please spread this around to anyone you know that feeds this food.
>
>Iam’s &Eukanuba have been informed…also the FDA. This food was NOT on the recall list.
>Wilma at
>Wilma’s Orphans
>www.inn-home.com
August 29th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Has Wilma filed a complaint?
Maybe someone should send her the links?
August 29th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
STOP BUYING OR FEEDING THE CRAP. At this point no one should be feeding their dogs Iams ANYTHING. Or Eukanuba. How long will it take pet owners to learn? Those poor dead puppies! They never had a chance.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
heads up! another salmonella/spinach recall
California grower recalls salmonella- tainted spinach
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200…..2yLV8E1vAI
August 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Wilma was the author of the email above. I believe she is writing about a friend of her’s who’s pups died from the tainted food.
One of the other posters on PC “called and left a msg on Wilma’s voice mail asking her to post directly to PC and IM with any lot #s, dates, and state purchased in info she could provide.”
Still waiting to hear from her.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
sorry, messed up the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....2yLV8E1vAI
August 29th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH.....pstoryview
CNN story - Salmonella finding prompts spinach recall
August 29th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Barb, since there’s been no response so far from Wilma, I’ll send her an Email also.
August 29th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
CDC is investigating this one. When 66 people in 18 states come down with the same strain….10 are hospitalized…and reports are still coming in….it’s way beyond reporter fixation with “16 dead animals”. Going to seriously mess with Mars’ ability to spin.
Love the FDA advice on pet food: - Wash hands for at least 20 seconds with warm water and soap right after handling dry pet foods and treats.
How many times have I stuck a handful of dry food or treats in my pocket for training? How many old recipes have I read involving raw eggs?
What the @*$#&% has happened to our food supply? We shouldn’t HAVE to treat food like it belongs in a biohazard bag!
August 29th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
No human is “officially” dead yet and it may take months for enough people to keel over for THIS poisoning make it to the top of the FDA list, maybe years.
And then it won’t be “official”.
Lighten up, calm down, take a pill, the FDA approves a LOT of pills.
The media will have the cover up all set by morning. Those people are “confused”, possibly terrorists, they might very well have PIT BULLS! Or have become”tainted” while making METH!
The FDA has it UNDER CONTROL and they will INVESTIGATE the ass off this problem!
August 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Just realized that CNN spinich story was the same as the yahoo one you posted straybaby. Sorry ’bout that.
MaineMom - good idea if you email Wilma. I just did as well.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:24 am
What’s happening to our food supply? Much, much more than we are privvy to. Hope none of you are avid Deer or Elk eaters. Check out the map link below to see how widespread this is!
ANOTHER DEER TESTS POSITIVE FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
Subject: CWD NEW MEXICO RECORDS IT’S 19 CASE (near Texas border again)
Date: August 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm PST
LAS CRUCES ? New Mexico recorded its 19th case of chronic wasting
disease in deer in a sick animal found in the Bishop’s Cap area of the Organ Mountains.
Officer Richard McDonald investigated a report of an emaciated deer
July 12. The animal was unaware of human presence, chronically thirsty,
urinating often, and staying in and near a water source. Officer McDonald
followed the state’s protocol for disease surveillance by killing the animal and sending it to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Albuquerque for testing.
Based on the symptoms and the area from which the deer came, the
laboratory was instructed that chronic wasting disease (CWD) was highly probable. Laboratory diagnostic testing confirmed presence of CWD in this deer. This is the 19th deer with confirmed CWD found since it was first detected in New Mexico in 2002. Two elk have also been found with CWD.
This deer was in Game Management Unit 19, where special CWD
restrictions already exist for hunters.
Anyone who finds a deer or elk that appears unaware of human presence
and displays symptoms including droopy ears, emaciation, chronic thirst,
frequent urination, and reluctance to leave water, should report their
observations to the Department of Game and Fish, Wildlife Management
Division, (505) 476-8127.
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.u.....es.htm#CWD
http://www.wildlife.state.nm.u.....wd_map.htm
Map - http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/n.....ution.html
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....mp;P=23557
THREE NEW CASES OF CWD were announced in this same location this month
;.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, JULY 7, 2006:. 3 SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO DEER TEST
POSITIVE FOR …
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE.....0011-1.pdf
IF we could only put up the imaginary fence that seems to work so well
per TAHC keeping these deer and elk from coming into TEXAS from New Mexico with CWD, if we could just use the same one for the illegal aliens, we would same a bunch of money, and it probably would works just as bad as the one that’s there now, or NOT. …TSS (Terry S. Singletary)
August 30th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Those deer you speak of can very well affect cattle. They probably all ready are infected. They say this wasting disease could be air born by where the animal urinates and could stay in the soil and infect other animals too..’
I wonder what this stuff is found in the dog food? What is aflotoxin anyway and why would it be in the food? Anyone know? This salmonella outbreak is just way out of hand. How sick will this make our animals and wouldn’t we get it also from our pets licking us since it is so easy to get just handling pet food.
So we get to wonder each night whether our pets food will make us sick and them too again!! When will it stop! When can we have peace of mind to know that each time we feed our pets that we are not killing them!!!
the FDA knows more then they are saying as usual. They will wait days again before telling any one anything and more will get ill or die. After all they have to test the product before letting the public know anything about it .
this just takes too long. I do not understand why they cannot put out a warning to the public while they test. Just say do not use the product till tests are completed.
Oh well they would not want to do that would they, the manufacturer may lose money while people get ill and die and the FDA is so scared they may get sued I guess for doing what is right for us.
All these people ill already should give them a good sign that they are doing a very terrible job of protecting us. When are they going to appoint more people to help them. WE need help. This will never end. Why would anyone want to purchase a pet any more with all of these problems. I do not want to kill my cat or dog and worry each night what ever I may be feeding them can kill them. It is just too much any more.
This has got to stop and we all have to start doing more about stopping it! There has to be more we can do. Maybe we should start picketing the government offices and get the media to pay attention to it.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Re CWD: I highly recommend reading “Brain Trust” by Colm A. Kelleher as soon as you can get your hands on it. Very VERY scary stuff and I guarantee you will rethink eating *any* meat after reading it.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:36 am
How many people have to die before the FDA gets off it’s ass and does its job? I wish Barbara and Jenna Bush would get salmonella poisoning. I would love to hear their Dad go on and on about a great job his flunky cronies are doing running this country into the ground.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Not to worry…….at the rate the poisons are pouring into this country plus all the problems with bacteria already here, we’ll all be dead before any of our gov’t agencies decide to do their job & protect our food supply. Maybe Duane-o or Steve-o need to get a little food poisoning. Forget the pet food……they have already told us that it’s safe so we have nothing to worry about there (oh puuuulllllllleeeeeezzzzzzz).
Going back to the FDA’s warning to us a couple of weeks ago to treat pet food like nuclear waste………my question is besides the two dry dog foods that were made public that tested positiive for salmonella, how many others are you covering for that refuse to go public? Does the FDA have a limit on how many people die before they go public & try to save other people from the same fate?
Welcome to the United States of Chinica, our newest Third World Country.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Pukanuba said: “Going back to the FDA’s warning to us a couple of weeks ago to treat pet food like nuclear waste………my question is besides the two dry dog foods that were made public that tested positiive for salmonella, how many others are you covering for that refuse to go public? Does the FDA have a limit on how many people die before they go public & try to save other people from the same fate?”
I’m wondering if the toxin is MORE than Salmonella. Remember the Chinese chicken jerky treats company that got its chicken from vet’s offices and approved slaughter houses and says it cooks its chicken so the Avian Flu virus is killed? Can’t Salmonella be killed by cooking? I just wonder… Can you imagine the lengths to which the coverup would go if it were Avian Flu? Where do you think all of the sick and dead chickens went? They were slaughtered in the millions. Look at the pig farmers that sold off their pigs for cheap prices when they became sick or thought they might become sick with the “bleeding Pig” disease. Look at the selling of used chopsticks that were sold UNsterilized. Can you tell I’ve lost complete faith in our government and regulatory agencies?
I know that spinach or salad mix was recalled a couple of weeks ago by distributors to restuarants. No reason was given. It could have been that the greens were not properly refrigerated or for some other reason. I just know that restaurants receiving the greens were told to destroy them and they’d receive credit. I think the silent recalls go on so much more frequently than we know.
We know that ANY food manufacturing plant, human or pet, SHOULD be testing routinely for Salmonella. I was told by Evangers that they routinely test for bacteria. If companies are doing their jobs properly, how could Salmonella “slip” through in the food and be sold? The food, human or pet, cannot be trusted.
As for aflotoxin. Pet food manufacturing plants SHOULD ALL have CURB-SIDE TESTING OF GRAINS BEFORE THE GRAIN WAGON EVEN GETS CLOSE TO THE PLANT. I thought this was supposed to be a standard rule from what I was told by a pet food manufacturing plant! If the aflotoxin test comes back too high, the wagon is supposed to be sent on its way with NO SALE!
What about IAMS canned CAT foods? I would think they would have some of the same ingredients as the canned dog food.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Susan & Barb -
Go to Pandora’s box on the forum (near end of thread) - Terry S Singeltary joins for comments, he’s number 1 consumer activist for CWD, BSE, BASE, TSE diseases.. very informative, his screenname is flounder
CDC involved, salmonella infected how many people? 66 in the past 18 freaking months. They’ve know for a long time to get their studies done. Just now hearing the alerts… thanks for your swift call to action!! NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 30th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Doesn’t Mars Petco own Nutro? You know, the company that just showed up with POISONOUS Oasis refusals. Where is this food made and what other products are made at this plant? It’s probably all going through the same equipment.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Barb, you must be from NM. So am I! Cool!
CWD has also been found in elk populations in northern NM. You can count on cattle having it. The cattle share the same pastures as elk and deer. Rancher’s won’t report it until it starts hurting their pocket book.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Susan - I’m THRILLED that you’ve read ‘Brain Trust’ and are spreading the word! I tell everyone to read it too, and post comments about it everywhere.
Krista - Having a mother diagnosed with Alzheimer’s is what led me to read Brain Trust. I since joined CJD Voice yahoo group to keep abreast of this awful, dreaded disease and I get daily alerts from Terry S. Singletary…the post I posted above about the CWD was from Terry!
August 30th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Do any of these elk end up in rendering plants?
August 30th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
No Bridgette, I’m from always sunny San Diego!
August 30th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Cathy if the elk have it and the deer have it then the cattle will have it. Read up on Mad Cow disease and you will see what I mean.
This AFlotoxin that the one lady was talking about here is the home sight for it below. I was scared this would happen since I am in Kansas and Oklahoma too had the same troubles this year with their crops. We had too much rain. It would not stop. When it came time to harvest crops they could not bring them in and I noticed the wheat was stunted and did not grow well and for weeks it was not cut when it should have been. Some of them cut it and some just rolled the soil but the ones that cut it well we all know where it would go. It would not be fit for humans but they would give it to the animals. I think they have and this Aflotoxin is in a lot of pet food now and probably cattle and chicken, etc. feeds. Here is the sight that talks all about it:
Aflatoxins-Home Page
Paper discussing the aflatoxins and their effects on humans and animals. … Factors favorizing aflatoxin production. Aflatoxicosis and animal health …www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/toxicagents/aflatoxin/aflatoxin.html
August 30th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Bridgett,
Have they found HOW CWD is transmitted for sure? IF NOT, it is irresponsible to make comments about cattle getting it, AND that the ranchers would not report it until it hurts their pocketbook!
Ranchers are very concerned with protecting their herds from disease outbreaks. I am very actively involved with R-CALF USA, a national cattle organization that has filed suit against USDA to keep BSE out of the U.S. cattle herds.
BSE has similar symptoms to CWD, but there is NO evidence connecting the two, and NO evidence that cattle can get CWD.
Please remember, if you attack family farms and ranches and put THEM out of business, your source of wholesome food will be GONE, and you will have to rely on the big transnational food congomerates for your food! Guess where they are outsourcing their food production to?! China!
August 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
For those interested in reading ‘Brain Trust’ and I hope you ALL are, you can purchase it here:
http://www.simonsays.com/conte.....pid=501042
Amazon is selling the hardcover for only $17.16 here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obi.....monsayscom
On the first link above, scroll down and click on the ‘read an excerpt’ to read the second chapter of the book.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Sorry, I was Anonymous in the above post.
Cattle and deer are two different species. There are a few diseases that can go from one specie to another, But there is NO evidence that CWD is one of them.
The current theory is that BSE is transmitted by cattle consuming diseased tissue in feed. While BSE in cattle, CWD in elk and deer, and Scrapie in sheep have similar symptoms, there is NO evidence connecting the 3 diseases.
Mark Purdy, an organic farmer from England, has a theory on BSE that it was caused by a nerve toxin mandated by his government to kill parasites in cattle.
Another theory on the CWD is that the areas the deer and elk are found are near nuclear test sites?! Is this true? I don’t know.
All I know is: we ALL need to stay focused and do what we can to protect the food supply for our pets and our families.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
THANK YOU TERRY!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I have read several articles on BSE in cattle and Scrapie in sheep and how for sometime now we have had a lot of trouble with deer and Elk getting the Brain wasting disease too. They do not know what causes it and they do not know just what to call it. They do know what not to call it. They know it does not act like a virus. It has to do with prions in the brain. The strange thing about this is that so does dementia.
Yes they felt that it is caused from feeding cattle bone, etc from sheep. This could very well be the reason in Europe and the U.S. But… now that we have it I have read that they are wondering how it can be transmitted. They think it could be from the urine, etc. and be air borne or stay in the soil so when another animal comes along and eats the grass, etc. it could get into them. They just do not know for sure about any of it. Just theories!
If this theory is correct about the cattle then why would the deer and elk get it? They were not fed this stuff from sheep!
But when the FDA says they only check 1 percent of our cattle that sure concerns me! I just read not long ago that they found a milk cow that had mad cow and was putting it into our pet food. It was caught in time.
If we only have 1 percent of our cattle tested then that is not enough.
I have always been for the American farmer. I live in the middle of the farm belt. But when I started seeing what the American farmer was feeding the cattle and pigs it was upsetting. One farmer down the road from my house was recycling his pig crap and giving it back to his pigs. He had a big silo looking thing to dry it all out. I personally feel that they have gotten carried away with feeding all of the animals things that they were not suppose to eat in the first place. This recycling they do with all of the animals is going to cause harm in some way or the other. Recycling pig crap, and chicken crap and giving blood and hormones to cattle is just not normal for them.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Highnote, Thanks, I understand now how it gets into foods. Good to know. Scary, but good.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Hey, what happened to Terry’s post? It was here a minute ago, before I thanked him?
August 30th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
yeah, this is a pretty picture, millions of brain diseased people jammed into every medical facility in the country. be sure to check the “go mad by” date on your packages of meat, folks.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Deer/elk feeding stations or airlifted feed is provided in some areas during harsh winters. I don’t know what they use. They’ve been doing it for years. Deer have eaten cattle feed. I see deer and cattle in the same field all the time.
So it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if CWD is the deer version of mad cow.
But really, why are we surprised at ANY of this? Amphibians show abnormal development from all the hormones/leached plastics in the water. There are more fish die-offs every year, and dead zones in the sea are huge.
Walmart buys ‘organic’ food from China? HAH! Most of their water is contaminated with stuff WE banned our industries from using years ago. China created an international incident when they spilled benzene into a river flowing into Russia. Didn’t bother to warn their own citizens when it first happened, either.
And our own American corporations laid off American workers, offshored production to places where they don’t have to follow any rule except ‘don’t get caught’, and lie Lie LIE when they do.
And we BUY the stuff?
But it’s SO hard not to. Almost everything I look at was manufactured somewhere else. I grow most of my vegetables now. I try to shop at small local businesses.
And if I ever replace my dog, I will never buy commercial pet food again!
August 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
http://www.finalexit.org/ergo-store/
Something we may need in the very near future.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Terry, did you attend the session with the National Assembly members and relevant NGOs of Korea that they invited you to speak at?
(written about here: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3940 )
I would imagine you did and that you gave them an earful!
August 30th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Itchmo Admin is posting this on behalf of Terry S. Singeltary, Sr. For some reason, his comment is not showing up on the thread, so we are putting it up for him instead.
This is Terry’s comment:
Thank you Emily at itchmo for taking care of my postings!
NOW, i will continue with what i had to say.
nuclear proliferation and or ops have nothing to do with the cause of TSE
aka mad cow disease. cwd of deer and elk, bse and base of cattle, and
scrapie and all of its 20+ typical strains of sheep and goats and atypical
strains that just popped up in the USA for the 3rd time i.e. Nor-98, TME of
mink, and nobody is checking cats and dogs, and if you dont think a dog can
get it think again, are in a family of TSEs i.e. Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy, yes they are all related, and more so than you think. i have
wasted 10 years as of 12/14/07, and am always amazed of just how the public
is totally oblivious as to what really is going on, and just how big AG runs
the white house and it’s policy making, just follow the case $$$ makes know
difference to me whay you eat, or what you feed your pets, but stop kidding
yourself…………ill post more later, but this should hold you for a
while………………….tss
Subject: Cross-sequence transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
creates a new prion strain
Date: August 25, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....38;P=21267
Subject: MAD COW BASE H-TYPE AND L-TYPE
Date: August 23, 2007 at 11:30 am PST
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....38;P=19779
From: “Terry S. Singeltary Sr.”
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: TWO MORE Nor98 atypical Scrapie cases detected in USA bringing
total to 3 cases to date
Infected and Source Flocks
As of June 30, 2007, there were …..
snip…
One field case and one validation case were consistent with Nor-98 scrapie.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/anim.....ie_rpt.pps
IN the February 2007 Scrapie report it only mentions ;
”One case was consistent with Nor98 scrapie.”
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/anim.....s/scrapie/
(please note flocks of origin were in WY, CO, AND CA. PERSONAL COMMUNCATIONS
USDA, APHIS, VS ET AL. …TSS)
NOR98 SHOWS MOLECULAR FEATURES REMINISCENT OF GSS
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....38;P=14553
An evaluation of scrapie surveillance in the United States
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....038;P=3427
FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....38;P=10451
SEAC New forms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1 August 2007
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:09:38 -0500
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....038;P=3573
POTENTIAL MAD CAT ESCAPES LAB IN USA
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....038;P=7062
August 2007
HUMAN and ANIMAL TSE Classifications i.e. mad cow disease and the UKBSEnvCJD
only theory
TSEs have been rampant in the USA for decades in many species, and they all
have been
rendered and fed back to animals for human/animal consumption. I propose
that the
current diagnostic criteria for human TSEs only enhances and helps the
spreading of
human TSE from the continued belief of the UKBSEnvCJD only theory in 2007.
With all the science to date refuting it, to continue to validate this myth,
will only spread
this TSE agent through a multitude of potential routes and sources i.e.
consumption,
surgical, blood, medical, cosmetics etc. I propose as with Aguzzi, Asante,
Collinge,
Caughey, Deslys, Dormont, Gibbs, Ironside, Manuelidis,
Marsh, et al and many more, that the world of TSE Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy is far from an exact science, but there is enough proven
science to
date that this myth should be put to rest once and for all, and that we move
forward with a
new classification for human and animal TSE that would properly identify
the infected species, the source species, and then the route.
This would further have to be broken down to strain of species and then the
route of
transmission would further have to be broken down. Accumulation and
Transmission are
key to the threshold from sub-clinical to clinical disease, and key to all
this, is to stop the
amplification and transmission of this agent, the spreading of, no matter
what strain. In
my opinion, to continue with this myth that the U.K. strain of BSE (one
strain TSE in
cows), and the nv/v CJD (one strain TSE humans) and that all the rest of
human
TSE are just one single strain i.e. sporadic CJD (when to date there are 6
different
phenotypes of sCJD, and growing per Gambetti et al), and that no other
animal TSE
transmits to humans, to continue with this masquerade will only continue to
spread,
expose, and kill, who knows how many more in the years and decades to come.
ONE was
enough for me, My Mom, hvCJD i.e. Heidenhain Variant CJD, DOD 12/14/97
confirmed, which is nothing more than another mans name added to CJD, like
CJD itself,
Jakob and Creutzfeldt, or Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, just
another CJD or
human TSE, named after another human.
WE are only kidding ourselves with the current diagnostic criteria for human
and animal
TSE, especially differentiating between the nvCJD vs the sporadic CJD
strains and then
the GSS strains and also the FFI fatal familial insomnia strains or the ones
that mimics
one or the other of those TSE? Tissue infectivity and strain typing of the
many variants
of the human and animal TSEs are paramount in all variants of all TSE. There
must be a
proper classification that will differentiate between all these human TSE in
order to do
this. With the CDI and other more sensitive testing coming about, I only
hope that my
proposal will some day be taken seriously. …
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
flounder9@verizon.net
CJD NEWS
http://disc.server.com/Indices/236650.html
CJD VOICE (voice for _all_ victims of human TSE)
http://members.aol.com/larmstr.....dvoice.htm
TSS
Opinion on Hypotheses on the origin and
transmission of BSE. Adopted
on 29-30 November 2001.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food.....356_en.pdf
PLUS, if anyone thinks R-CALF or the big cattle industry is out for your
best interest, i don’t know if there is enough room to post here of what a
bunch of BSeee that really is…….
Defense opens case
Cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey
By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer
snip…
Van Smith, a reporter with City Paper in Baltimore, testified about an
article he wrote on rendering plants. Smith said he saw sheep taken to a
plant despite a voluntary ban on using processed sheep in
protein-enhanced feed, backing up a statement Lyman made on Winfrey’s show.
Under cross-examination, Smith said he was not sure whether the sheep
were used for feed or other animal-derived products.
snip…
Van Smith, a reporter with City Paper in Baltimore, testified about an
article he wrote on rendering plants. Smith said he saw sheep taken to a
plant despite a voluntary ban on using processed sheep in
protein-enhanced feed, backing up a statement Lyman made on Winfrey’s show.
Under cross-examination, Smith said he was not sure whether the sheep
were used for feed or other animal-derived products.
http://www.amarillonet.com/ns-.....et=5&
Web posted Wednesday, February 18, 1998 2:02 p.m. CT
Graphic pictures greet Winfrey jury
By KAY LEDBETTER
Globe-News Farm and Ranch Editor
Pictures of sheep heads, euthanized pets and roadkill greeted jurors
this morning as they returned to the continuation of the cattlemen vs.
Oprah Winfrey lawsuit.
The lawsuit continues today in U.S. District Mary Lou Robinson’s court,
but in a much diminished state.
snip…
Defense lawyer Charles Babcock called Van Smith, a City Paper reporter
from Baltimore who had written an article on rendering plants in
September 1995.
Smith and Babcock went through more than 50 pictures taken as the
reporter toured the Valley Proteins plant in Baltimore and followed a
rendering truck to the local animal shelter, a sausage plant and a
slaughterhouse.
The pictures showed offal being emptied from the slaughterhouses. They
showed animal shelter workers in the euthanasia room; barrels of dead
animals in a refrigerated room at the animal shelter; waste meat from
the sausage plant; and dead sheep from the slaughterhouse.
http://www.amarillonet.com/sto.....phic.shtml
Web posted Friday, January 23, 1998 5:49 a.m. CT
TSS
Witness testifies some ill cattle sent to rendering plant
By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer
snip…
Mike Engler — son of Paul Engler, the original plaintiff and owner of
Cactus Feeders Inc. — agreed that more than 10 cows with some sort of
central nervous system disorder were sent to Hereford By-Products.
The younger Engler, who has a doctorate in biochemistry from Johns
Hopkins University, was the only witness jurors heard Thursday in the
Oprah Winfrey defamation trial. His testimony will resume this morning.
According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report from which Winfrey
attorney Charles Babcock quoted, encephalitis caused by unknown reasons
could be a warning sign for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow
disease.
Encephalitis was indicated on the death certificates — or “dead
slips” — of three Cactus Feeders cows discussed in court. The slips
then were stamped, “Picked up by your local used cattle dealer” before
the carcasses were taken to the rendering plant.
snip…
http://www.amarillonet.com/ns-.....t=93&
QUESTION, IS U.S.A. FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEM POISONING US ?
What Do We Feed to Food-Production Animals? A Review of Animal Feed
Ingredients and Their Potential Impacts on Human Health
Amy R. Sapkota,1,2 Lisa Y. Lefferts,1,3 Shawn McKenzie,1 and Polly Walker1
1Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Maryland Institute for
Applied Environmental Health, College of Health and Human Performance,
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA;
3Lisa Y. Lefferts Consulting, Nellysford, Virginia, USA
snip…
Table 1. Animal feed ingredients that are legally used in U.S. animal feeds
Animal
Rendered animal protein from Meat meal, meat meal tankage, meat and bone
meal, poultry meal, animal the slaughter of food by-product meal, dried
animal blood, blood meal, feather meal, egg-shell production animals and
other meal, hydrolyzed whole poultry, hydrolyzed hair, bone marrow, and
animal animals digest from dead, dying, diseased, or disabled animals
including deer and elk Animal waste Dried ruminant waste, dried swine waste,
dried poultry litter, and undried processed animal waste products
snip…
Conclusions
Food-animal production in the United States has changed markedly in the past
century, and these changes have paralleled major changes in animal feed
formulations. While this industrialized system of food-animal production may
result in increased production efficiencies, some of the changes in animal
feeding practices may result in unintended adverse health consequences for
consumers of animal-based food products. Currently, the use of animal feed
ingredients,
including rendered animal products, animal waste, antibiotics, metals, and
fats, could result in higher levels of bacteria, antibioticresistant
bacteria, prions, arsenic, and dioxinlike compounds in animals and resulting
animal-based food products intended for human consumption. Subsequent human
health effects among consumers could include increases in bacterial
infections (antibioticresistant and nonresistant) and increases in the risk
of developing chronic (often fatal) diseases
such as vCJD. Nevertheless, in spite of the wide range of potential human
health impacts that could result from animal feeding practices, there are
little data collected at the federal or state level concerning the amounts
of specific ingredients that are intentionally included in U.S. animal feed.
In addition, almost no biological or chemical testing is conducted on
complete U.S. animal feeds; insufficient testing is performed on retail meat
products; and human health effects data are not appropriately linked to this
information. These surveillance inadequacies make it difficult to conduct
rigorous epidemiologic studies and risk assessments
that could identify the extent to which specific human health risks are
ultimately associated with animal feeding practices. For example, as noted
above, there are insufficient data to determine whether other human
foodborne bacterial illnesses besides those caused by S. enterica serotype
Agona are associated with animal feeding practices. Likewise, there are
insufficient data to determine the percentage of antibiotic-resistant human
bacterial infections that are attributed to the nontherapeutic use of
antibiotics in animal feed. Moreover, little research has been conducted to
determine whether the use of organoarsenicals in animal feed, which can lead
to elevated levels of arsenic in meat products (Lasky et al. 2004),
contributes to increases in cancer risk. In order to address these research
gaps, the following principal actions are necessary within the United
States: a) implementation of a nationwide reporting system of the specific
amounts and types of feed ingredients of concern to public health that are
incorporated into animal feed, including antibiotics, arsenicals, rendered
animal products, fats, and animal waste; b) funding and development of
robust surveillance systems that monitor biological, chemical, and other
etiologic agents throughout the animal-based food-production chain “from
farm to fork†to human health outcomes; and c) increased communication and
collaboration among feed professionals, food-animal producers, and
veterinary and public health officials.
REFERENCES…snip…end
Sapkota et al.
668 VOLUME 115 | NUMBER 5 | May 2007 • Environmental Health Perspectives
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.g.....obtype=pdf
BSE MRR TSS, R-CALF ON CANADA VS USA
Bill Rancher
Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1418 Location: GWN Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:49
am Post subject:
Texan wrote:
Hey Terry, I’d like to get a little further clarification on something
if/when you have time. I’m not sure if I’m reading you correctly….
flounder wrote:
This is what sank my battleship in regards to testifying for r-calf. they
actually appoached me about it, but i told them i would be glad to testify,
but i was not stopping at the Canadian border, my testimony was to come
south as well if given the opportunity. and that ended that, but i did
supply them with a load of data, for whatever that was worth.
I highlighted the parts that confuse me. This almost makes it seem as if
R-CALF was asking you to testify for them, but changed their mind when they
found out that you were going to tell the WHOLE truth, instead of just the
truth as regards Canadian imports.
I thought that R-CALF was only interested in the WHOLE truth - not just the
selected parts of the truth that fit their protectionist agenda? After
reading your post, it makes a person wonder. Maybe I read it wrong…
Am I reading this correctly, Terry? That can’t be right, can it? Thanks.
I was wondering exactly the same thing Texan.
_________________ Canadian Beef….A cut above the rest!
my answer to big muddy from canada ;
***
http://ranchers.net/forum/view.....8;start=12
http://ranchers.net/forum/view.....8;start=24
http://ranchers.net/forum/view.....8;start=36
http://ranchers.net/forum/view.....8;start=48
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-.....038;P=8374
August 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
I hope you all have a chance to read the links Terry has posted.
For those who have not, here is one worth reading. Terry’s response to article “US scientists develop a possible test for BSE” written in Nov. 1999:
Found here: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletter.....1312/b#EL2
In reading the recent article in the BMJ about the potential BSE tests being developed in the U.S. and Bart Van Everbroeck reply. It does not surprize me, that the U.S. has been concealing vCJD. There have been people dying from CJD, with all the symptoms and pathological findings that resemble U.K. vCJD for some time. It just seems that when there is one found, they seem to change the clarical classification of the disease, to fit their agenda. I have several autopsies, stating kuru type amyloid plaques, one of the victims was 41 years of age. Also, my Mom died a most hideous death, Heidenhain Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Her symptoms resemble that of all the U.K. vCJD victims. She would jerk so bad at times, it would take 3 of us to hold her down, while she screamed “God, what’s wrong with me, why can’t I stop this.” 1st of symptoms to death, 10 weeks, she went blind in the first few weeks. But, then they told me that this was just another strain of sporadic CJD. They can call it what ever they want, but I know what I saw, and what she went through. Sporadic, simply means, they do not know. My neighbors Mom also died from CJD. She had been taking a nutritional supplement which contained the following; vacuum dried bovine BRAIN, bone meal, bovine EYE, veal bone, bovine liver powder, bovine adrenal, vacuum dried bovine kidney, and vacuum dried porcine stomach. As I said, this woman taking these nutritional supplements, died from CJD. The particular batch of pills that was located, in which she was taking, was tested. From what I have heard, they came up negative, for the prion protein. But, in the same breath, they said their testing, may not have been strong enough to pick up the infectivity. Plus, she had been taking these type pills for years, so, could it have come from another batch?
CWD is just a small piece of a very big puzzle. I have seen while deer hunting, deer, squirrels and birds, eating from cattle feed troughs where they feed cattle, the high protein cattle by products, at least up until Aug. 4, 1997. So why would it be so hard to believe that this is how they might become infected with a TSE. Or, even by potentially infected land. It’s been well documented that it could be possible, from scrapie. Cats becoming infected with a TSE. Have you ever read the ingredients on the labels of cat and dog food? But, they do not put these tissues from these animals in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutritional supplements, hGH, hPG, blood products, heart valves, and the many more products that come from bovine, ovine, or porcine tissues and organs. So, as I said, this CWD would be a small piece of a very big puzzle. But, it is here, and it most likely has killed. You see, greed is what caused this catastrophe, rendering and feeding practices. But, once Pandora’s box was opened, the potential routes of infection became endless.
No BSE in the U.S.A.? I would not be so sure of that considering that since 1990;
Since 1990 the U.S. has raised 1,250,880,700 cattle;
Since 1990 the U.S. has ONLY checked 8,881 cattle brains for BSE, as of Oct. 4, 1999;
There are apprx. 100,000 DOWNER cattle annually in the U.S., that up until Aug. 4, 1997 went to the renders for feed;
Scrapie running rampant for years in the U.S., 950 infected FLOCKS, as of Aug. 1999;
Our feeding and rendering practices have mirrored that of the U.K. for years, some say it was worse. Everything from the downer cattle, to those scrapie infected sheep, to any roadkill, including the city police horse and the circus elephant went to the renders for feed and other products for consumption. Then they only implemented a partial feed ban on Aug. 4, 1997, but pigs, chickens, dogs, and cats, and humans were exempt from that ban. So they can still feed pigs and chickens those potentially TSE tainted by-products, and then they can still feed those by-products back to the cows. I believe it was Dr. Joe Gibbs, that said, the prion protein, can survive the digestinal track. So you have stopped nothing. It was proven in Oprah Winfrey’s trial, that Cactus Cattle feeders, sent neurologically ill cattle, some with encephalopathy stamped on the dead slips, were picked up and sent to the renders, along with sheep carcasses. Speaking of autopsies, I have a stack of them, from CJD victims. You would be surprised of the number of them, who ate cow brains, elk brains, deer brains, or hog brains.
I believe all these TSE’s are going to be related, and originally caused by the same greedy Industries, and they will be many. Not just the Renders, but you now see, that they are re-using medical devices that were meant for disposal. Some medical institutions do not follow proper auto- claving procedures (even Olympus has put out a medical warning on their endescopes about CJD, and the fact you cannot properly clean these instruments from TSE’s), and this is just one product. Another route of infection.
Regardless what the Federal Government in the U.S. says. It’s here, I have seen it, and the longer they keep sweeping it under the rug and denying the fact that we have a serious problem, one that could surpass aids (not now, but in the years to come, due to the incubation period), they will be responsible for the continued spreading of this deadly disease.
It’s their move, it’s CHECK, but once CHECKMATE has been called, how many thousands or millions, will be at risk or infected or even dead. You can’t play around with these TSE’s. I cannot stress that enough. They are only looking at body bags, and the fact the count is so low. But, then you have to look at the fact it is not a reportable disease in most states, mis-diagnosis, no autopsies performed. The fact that their one-in-a- million theory is a crude survey done about 5 years ago, that’s a joke, under the above circumstances. A bad joke indeed……..
The truth will come, but how many more have to die such a hideous death. It’s the Government’s call, and they need to make a serious move, soon. This problem, potential epidemic, is not going away, by itself.
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Taiwan reports suspected case of mad-cow disease from placenta - Aug. 30, 2007
http://news.monstersandcritics.....m_placenta
August 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
My GGrandmother died of “Alzheimer’s, and My Grandmother died of Alzheimer’s. Of course, I am terrified.
Now I have a cat with it. I know, because she acts just like them.
My Grandmother didn’t eat much meat, but i suppose it doesn’t matter how much?
Will someone Please tell Me what to eat? Not just the veggie part. I really don’t care much about meat, but i have lost over 20 lbs since losing My pets. So, what are you all eating? I am very serious about this.
And I will order the book tonight.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
My suggestion: Start eating a Plant Based Diet only!
I haven’t read this book yet, but I met Jeff Popick last month at the Animal Rights Conference in Los Angeles. Everyone was raving about this book!
Read: The Real Forbidden Fruit - (and/or some of the others listed here -http://www.jeffpopick.com/resources.html
WARNING: This book is not for the faint-hearted!
In “The Real Forbidden Fruit,” Jeff Popick blows wide open the myths and misconceptions surrounding meat and its effects on our planet, our bodies, our society and our spirituality - and it’s not a pretty picture.
Using thoughtful and thorough analysis, “The Real Forbidden Fruit” demonstrates how the animal industry, and our complicity with it, has created the dysfunctional and self-destructive world we live in today. Disease, famine, environmental disaster and even war are demonstrated to be direct results of our callous treatment of our fellow inhabitants of this planet.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can lead us all back to the Paradise this world once was, but it requires that we finally recognize what was “The Real Forbidden Fruit”.
Jeff also started manufacturing a new ’soap’ called Veganu…has absolutely NO animal products and NO animal testing was done in order to produce it. I have some bars…it smells wonderful! Jeff says it’s going to be sold at Von’s stores soon. So look for it. But you can go to his website www.veganu.com and print out a request form, take to your local store and ask that they start selling it.
And this book “No More Bull” by Howard Lyman, which I did just finish reading, has 100 great Vegan recipes in it:
http://www.madcowboy.com/02_VVFprods.002.html#NMB
August 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Barb, Thank You. i’ve been going crazy wondering what to eat?
Is this what you eat too?
August 30th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Here’s the correct link to the Veganu Bar of Soap -
http://www.veganstore.com/new-.....2/546.html
August 30th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Yes, but I only recently went Vegan. It’s really not difficult at all. There are all kinds of vegan foods in the stores nowadays. Start by going out to eat at a vegan resteraunt near you to see how delicious the food can be.