Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy - Mad Cow Disease
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January 2004
Federal Government
General Accounting Office
Testimony Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
For Release on Wednesday November 19, 2003 BIOTERRORISM
A Threat to Agriculture and
the Food Supply Statement for the Record by Lawrence J. Dyckman,
Director
Natural Resources and Environment
Mad
Cow Disease: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory
Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts GAO-02-183 (January
2002)
USDA
BSE
Information and Resources
USDA - The Animal and Plant Health inspection Service (APHIS)
BSE
Information
USDA
Actions to Prevent Bovine Spongiform Encephelopathy. (2004).
Food Safety And Inspection Service (FSIS)
Current
Thinking On Measures That Could Be Implemented To Minimize Human
Exposure To Materials That Could Potentially Contain the Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy Agent
Analysis
of 2002 FSIS Bovine AMR Products Survey Results Food Safety and
Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture (February
2003)
The
Follow-up to the Beef AMR Product Survey of 2002: Follow-up Results
and Actions for the Elimination of CNS (Spinal Cord) Tissues from
AMR Products Derived from Beef Vertebrae
Risk
Analysis: BSE Risk from Importation of Designated Ruminants and
Ruminant Products from Canada into the United States
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Economic Analysis Proposed Rule Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy:
Minimal Risk Regions And Importation Of Commodities (Aphis Docket
No. 03-080-1)
(October 24, 2003)
Animal
Disease Risk Assessment, Prevention, and Control Act of 2001 (PL
107-9) Final Report Prepared by the PL 107-9 Federal Inter-agency
Working Group (January 2003)
Appendices
to PL107-9 Inter-agency Working Group Final Report
USDA – Economic Research Service
Background
Data On U.S. Beef Industry
USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service
Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Trade
USDA Office of Inspector General
Food
Safety And Inspection Service Oversight Of Production Process And
Recall At Conagra Plant (Establishment 969)
Department of Health and Human Services/ Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
BSE
and CJD Information and Resources
Food and Drug Administration
Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
NIH Institute and Center Resources
Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Disease
International Organizations
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in North America
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Animal Products Animal
Health and Production Division
Canada:
a minimal BSE risk country (October 2003)
DTZ Pieda Consulting
Economic
Impact of BSE on the UK Economy, by DTZ Pieda Consulting, March
1998.
European Union
Vossen, P., Kreysa, J. and Goll, M. (2003). Overview
of the BSE Risk Assessments of the European Commission's Scientific
Steering Committee (SSC) and its TSE/BSE ad hoc Group: Adopted
Between September 1997 and April 2003.
World Organisation for Animal Health
Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Nongovernment Organizations
Consumer Policy Institute for Consumers Union
Letter
to the USDA Regarding Increased Testing for Mad Cow (July 20,
2003)
CU writes about the actions that the USDA should take in response
to the discovery of a BSE case in Canada on May 20.
Council For Agricultural Science And Technology
Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathies in the United States Interpretive Summary
(October 2000)
Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and Harvard School of
Public Health
Evaluation
of the Potential for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the United
States Revised October, 2003
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