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Topic: Court: U.S. can block BSE testing
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Agent 204
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posted 11 September 2008 02:27 PM
Yes, you read that correctly: quote:
The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a U.S. appeals court said Aug. 29.The dispute pits the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially deadly disease, against a Kansas meat packer that wants to test all its animals. Larger meat packers opposed such testing. If Creekstone Farms Premium Beef began advertising that its cows have all been tested, other companies fear they too will have to conduct the expensive tests.
From here. I've heard of minimum safety standards, but maximum safety standards?
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Agent 204
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posted 13 September 2008 03:57 AM
I didn't know that. Not surprised, though.Edited to add: From what I've found, the beef lobby tried to stop it here, but weren't successful, according to this: quote:
A company hoping to open a slaughterhouse in either northern Alberta or British Columbia was cited as saying it has been cleared by Ottawa to become the first Canadian operation to test cattle for mad cow disease.Officials at Peace Country Tender Beef Co-op said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will not oppose the company's request to test all 30,000 cattle it intends to process annually for the deadly brain-wasting disease.
Mind you, this was in 2004, so maybe there's been a change in policy since then? [ 13 September 2008: Message edited by: Agent 204 ]
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