FDA Investigation Leads to Several Indictments for Importing Contaminated Ingredients Used in Pet Food
Contaminated pet food caused pet illnesses and deaths last year

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations announced that two Chinese nationals and the businesses they operate, along with a U.S. company and its president and chief executive officer, were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate but related cases. The indictments are for their roles in a scheme to import products purported to be wheat gluten into the United States that were contaminated with melamine. These products were used to make pet food.

Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co., LTD. (XAC), a Chinese firm that processes and exports plant proteins to the United States; Mao Linzhun, a Chinese national who is the owner and manager of XAC; Suzhou Textiles, Silk, Light Industrial Products, Arts and Crafts I/E Co. LTD. (SSC), a Chinese export broker that exports products from China to the United States; and Chen Zhen Hao, president of SSC and a Chinese national were charged in a 26-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury today in Kansas City, Mo.

Also indicted were ChemNutra, Inc., a Las Vegas, Nevada corporation that buys food and food components from China to sell to U.S. companies in the food industry, along with ChemNutra owners Sally Qing Miller and her husband, Stephen S. Miller, who were charged in a separate, but related, 27-count indictment. Sally Qing Miller, a Chinese national, is the controlling owner and president of ChemNutra; Stephen Miller is an owner and CEO of ChemNutra. The indictments charge all seven defendants with delivering adulterated food that contained melamine, a substance which may render the food injurious to health, into interstate commerce; introduction of a misbranded food into interstate commerce; and other charges.

The indictments allege that more than 800 tons of purported wheat gluten, totaling nearly $850,000, was imported into the United States between Nov. 6, 2006, and Feb. 21, 2007. According to the indictments, SSC falsely declared to the Chinese government that those shipments were not subject to mandatory inspection by the Chinese government prior to export.

Melamine can be used to create products such as plastics, cleaning products, glues, inks, and fertilizers. Under certain conditions, melamine mixed with wheat gluten can make the product appear to have a higher protein level than is actually present. Melamine has no approved use as an ingredient in human or animal food in the United States. Wheat gluten is a natural protein derived from wheat or wheat flour, which is extracted to yield a powder with high protein content. Pet food manufacturers often use wheat gluten as a thickener or binding agent in the manufacture of certain types of pet food.

ChemNutra contracted with SSC, a Chinese registered export broker, to purchase food grade wheat gluten, according to the indictment. SSC then entered into a separate contract with XAC to supply the wheat gluten it needed to fulfill its contract with ChemNutra.

The indictments allege that the products purported to be wheat gluten were misbranded because the labels incorrectly represented that the purported wheat gluten had a minimum protein level of 75%.

On March 15, 2007, a pet food manufacturer alerted FDA to the deaths of 14 cats and dogs, several reported by consumers and several that died during routine taste trials conducted by the company. The animals were reported to have developed kidney failure after eating pet food that had been manufactured with the purported wheat gluten.

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http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/.....01792.html

Finally, the FDA takes action. but how effective is FDA ;

Feb. 5, 2008, 8:14PM
ANOTHER VOICE
Fallout of FDA neglect

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

snip…

The Government Accountability Office reported that at its current staffing levels, the FDA would need 13 years to inspect every foreign drug plant that sends products into this country; 27 years to inspect all foreign medical device makers; and 1,900 years to check every foreign food processor.

snip…

http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....16254.html

DER SPIEGEL (9/2001) - 24.02.2001 (9397 Zeichen)
USA: Loch in der Mauer
Die BSE-Angst erreicht Amerika: Trotz strikter Auflagen gelangte in Texas
verbotenes Tiermehl ins Rinderfutter - die Kontrollen der Aufsichtsbehörden
sind lax.
Link auf diesen Artikel im Archiv:
http://service.spiegel.de/digas/find?DID=18578755

“Its as full of holes as Swiss Cheese” says Terry Singeltary of the FDA
regulations. …

http://service.spiegel.de/diga.....D=18578755

Thu Dec 6, 2007 11:38

FDA IN CRISIS MODE, AMERICAN LIVES AT RISK

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidr.....07fda.html

FDA SCIENCE AND MISSION AT RISK

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/docke.....nology.pdf

Article Posted: 04/15/2007 9:16:48 PM

Human and Animal Food Poisoning with Mad Cow a Slow Death

an editorial by Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

HUMAN AND ANIMAL FOOD POISONING WITH MAD COW DISEASEs A SLOW DEATH

WITH all the pet food deaths mounting from tainted pet food, all the
suffering not only the animals are going through, but there owners as well,
why are owners of these precious animals not crying about the mad cow
tainted animal carcasses they poison there animals with everyday, and have
been for decades, why not an uproar about that? well, let me tell you why,
they don’t drop dead immediately, it’s a slow death, they simply call it

FELINE and or CANINE ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, DEMENTIA OR MAD CAT/DOG DISEASE

i.e. FSE and they refuse to document CSE i.e.Canine Spongiform
Encephalopathy, but it’s there and there is some strange pathological
findings on that topic that was convientantly swept under the rug. Sadly,
this happens everyday with humans, once again confidently swept under the
rug as Alzheimer’s and or dementia i.e. fast Alzheimer’s. Who wants to spend
money on an autopsy on an old dog or cat? Sadly, it’s the same with humans,
you get old and demented your either die or your family puts you in an old
folks home and forgets about you, then you die, and again, no autopsy in
most cases. Imagine 4.5 annually with Alzheimer’s, with and estimated 20+
million dieing a slow death by 2050, and in reality it will most likely be
much higher than that now that the blood supply has been infiltrated with
the TSE agent, and we now know that blood is another route and source for
this hideous disease. It’s hell getting old now a days.

NOW, for the ones that don’t believe me, well mad cow has been in the USA
for decades undetected officially, but the late Richard Marsh documented way
back, again, swept under the rug. Then in 2003 in December, the first case
of BSE was finally documented, by accident. Then you had the next two cases
that were documented in Texas and Alabama, but it took an act of Congress,
literally, to get those finally documented, and when they were finally
documented, they were atypical BSE or Bovine Amyloid Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BASE), which when transmitted to humans is not vCJD or
nvCJD, but SPORADIC CJD. Now you might ask yourself what about that mad cow
feed ban of August 4, 1997, the year my mother died from the Heidenhain
Variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (confirmed), well that ruminant to
ruminant was merely a regulation on paper that nobody enforced. Just last
month there was 10+ PLUS MILLION POUNDS OF BANNED BLOOD TAINTED MBM
DISPERSED INTO COMMERCE, and there is no way the FDA will ever recover it.
It will be fed out again. 2006 was a banner year for FDA mad cow protein fed
out into commerce. Looks like 2007 will be also.

Our federal Government has failed us at every corner when it comes to food
safety. maybe your dog, your cat, your mom, your dad, your aunt, or your
uncle, but again, who cares, there old and demented, just put them down, or
put them away. It’s hell getting old. …END

http://www.swnebr.net/newspape......pl?160273

FELINE AND CANINE ALZHEIMER’S OR MAD CAT/DOG DISEASE AND PET FOOD …
…TSS Name: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Date: Jan 26, 2007 Dear Terry S.
Singeltary Sr. … specifically dry dog food, some of which was reported to
have been …
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http://www.kxmb.com/getForumPo.....eId=113652

Crushed heads (which inevitably involve brain and spinal cord material)
are used to a limited extent but will also form one of the constituent
raw materials of meat and bone meal, which is used extensively in
pet food manufacturer…

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/f.....004001.pdf

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

USDA CERTIFIED H-BASE MAD COW SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

Monday, February 4, 2008

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.bl.....chool.html

TSS

August 31, 2007

State and Provincial Updates

Illinois:

Paul Shelton, Illinois Department of Natural Resources provides the
following: During July, IDNR identified a CWD-positive deer in LaSalle County after testing an animal showing classic signs of the illness. This was the first instance of the disease in this county. The deer was a 3
year old doe collected by a Conservation Police Officer after someone
reported a sick, emaciated deer. The location was south of I-80, about 2 miles west of Grundy County, near the town of Seneca. This represents about a 25 mile distance from the previous southernmost positive in
DeKalb County. Staff from the Division of Wildlife Resources are assessing
the implications of the finding.

The total number of CWD-infected deer found in Illinois now numbers
189. Prior to this, the disease had been confined to Winnebago, Boone, McHenry, Ogle, and DeKalb counties. More than 28,000 deer have been tested in Illinois during the past 5 years.

Illinois DNR CWD information is available at: http://dnr.state.il.us/cwd.

Editor’s note: This finding in LaSalle County is a significant departure
from the previously known distribution in Illinois. The new location is the first deer detected in the Illinois River basin, which winds southwest through Illinois towards St. Louis.

Barb, plenty of people make vegan soap, cosmetics and other products that are not animals tested and are widely available. and also certified organic. i’ve been using plant based products for years.

living a plant based life is fine, as long as you are REALLY true to it. i see so many who are vegetarian/vegan who NEVER question their food when out for lunches etc. if it’s plant based, they eat it. but the reality is, they could be harming the environment and/or eating pesticides/poisoned/gmo veggies. to do it right, the plants would come from sustainable resources more local than not, be certified organic and grown/harvested/produced with fair trade practices ;) that said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with adding meat to that diet if one desires. as long as the meats are humanely raised and slaughtered and raised organically in a sustainable environment ;)

i have meats from that type of environment arriving next week. what parts of the animal i’m not eating is being supplied for my pets (who are carnivores) i’m basically getting everything but the head and hide. my basic thought is try and be responsible with decisions and really know what you are buying. there is no reason to give up meat, poultry, seafood and dairy if you are responsible about your sources. i’ve switched from buy my fresh foods at the grocery stores to all farm sources. my stores do provide a good back up though as they have always had a good selection of organic/local foods. ahead of the curve! but it’s just easier to buy direct from the farms and put food away for when it’s out of season. by the time fall really hits, the only thing i’ll be buying is dairy (eggs and such) which i can get from a local dairy that sells in my hood on saturdays and maybe some winter veggies. good for the environment, the animals, my health. bad for Big AG and all those Brands ;)

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

http://news.monstersandcritics.....m_placenta

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.

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 ;

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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

(written about here: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3940 )

I would imagine you did and that you gave them an earful!

Something we may need in the very near future.