http://www.jefo.ca/pdf/article_english.pdf The St-Hyacinthe feed ingredient producer and distributor sees
in this a huge market for his products.
The problem with antibiotics is that their long-term ingestion can increase
the resistance of natural bacteria found in the human body.
"The most important step is to get a chicken bred without antibiotic
growth promoters," he added, conscious of the increasing worries
of consumers in terms of the food they are served.
Rightly so, Jefo has signed an agreement with the Italian firm Vetagro
(vetagro.it) in order to produce, in St-Hyacinthe, a solution to replace
antibiotics.
"Animal meal is replaced by amino acids of synthesis and proteins
of vegetable origin," explains Mr. Fontaine, agronomist.
horwood_microbiology
Contents: Staphylococcal infection: clinical syndromes; Epidemiology
of MRSA and MSSA; Genomics: genome sequence of MRSA and MSSA and future
research; Gene regulation and pathogenesis of disease; Pathogenesis of
disease; Antibiotic resistance and chemo-therapy.
International authorities here investigate recent research into the prion
diseases of Scrapie, BSE, the neurological and transmissible Mad Cow disease,
and CJD, the human equivalent.
After an introduction on the history of research into the diseases, there
are discussions on the affects of copper on biochemical properties and
prion proteins of brain cells, and new techniques for their study.
Contents: Historical Perspectives: Trafficking of prion protein; Structure
of Copper PrPc; Infrared Spectroscopy and prion protein; Copper and neurotoxicity;
Copper-PrP molecular interactions; Copper and amyloid precursor protein;
Alzheimer Abeta is a Cuproenzyme; Metal-Catalysed redox chemistry in Alzheimer's
Disease; Manganese and TSE's; Oxidative stress in prion disease; Metals
and CJD; Antioxidant proteins and disease; Disease progression and metal
aberrations; The present situation and future directions.
cwdfoote
Alberta is the latest in a long string of jurisdictions to
discover Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) inside their boundaries.
Given the method of spread (saliva, animal proteins in feedstocks) and
the history of cervid exchanges in which Alberta has participated (legal
private and governmental; suspected illegal transfers) and the proximity
of confirmed cases near the border in Saskatchewan, some disease experts
contend that it was simply a matter of time before the disease reached
Alberta.
We can learn a great deal about CWD dynamics by observing the research
results emerging from 20+ year ongoing studies in Colorado, USA. Colorado
Division of Wildlife has maintained a hunted population of mule deer and
elk in northern Colorado where infection rates in various herds range
from 1 to 15%.
dairy_conf
Four (4) 4-Hers will be sponsored from Washington to attend
the National 4-H Dairy Conference.
It is held in Madison, Wisconsin during the first week of October in conjunction
with World Dairy Expo.
Washington 4-H members to attend the National 4-H Dairy Conference.
1. Applicants must be 15, but not more than 18 years old as of January
1 of the year in which they are applying to attend.
Describe what a business advisory team is, how it functions, and how it
can be used to assist a dairy business to enhance its farm profitability.
List the difference between Foot and Mouth Disease and BSE (Mad Cow Disease).
ELEC01_03
Army Surgeon General LTG James B. Peake chose the balanced
scorecard as the best way to focus the AMEDD on what's most important.
TRICARE is adding benefits, lowering out-of-pocket costs, improving access
and reducing irritants.
AMEDD members must know how to explain new TRICARE benefits to patients,
writes Army Surgeon General and MEDCOM Commander LTG James B. Peake in
his monthly column.
Lead by example, train from experience, maintain and enforce standards,
take care of soldiers, adapt to change: 230 command sergeants major craft
an "NCO Vision."
Five officers get 2000 Medical Service Corps Award of Excellence: CPT
David Condon, CPT Donald Neff, CW2 Daniel Burrhus, CPT Scott Russell,
CPT Joel Harris.
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Part of the weakness may be attributed to the market timing,
as 550 pound steer calves placed now won't be expected to reach market
weight until late June when prices are seasonally lower.
Expected selling price is the basis adjusted futures price at the close
November 28, and would be the expected hedge price.
Backgrounding pays $490/head for the calf and returns the cow herd approximately
$25/head over all costs for a total return to the cow herd of $515 net
per calf.
Recent grain trade reports indicate China or its purchasers have cancelled
1.0 million tons (39.4 million bushels) of its corn export sales, and
have purchased an additional 0.5 million tons of U.S. corn.
luongo
First "slow virus" infection shown to be transmissible.
Using a cell-free extract of suspensions of brains of Kuru patients, caused
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in chimpanzees.
Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are indistinguishable except for unstable
properties of host range, incubation period, and virulence.
Microscopically, kuru is characterized by spongy appearance of CNS neuronal
tissue.
Thought that infectious agent spread by food preparation rather than consumption.
1. PrPSc aggregates with PrPC protein at cell surface.
Scrapies infection is resistant to radiation, nucleases, and other reagents
that damage nucleic acids.
2. PrPSc amplification by acting as a template to convert PrPC to PrPSc.
tracking
Following the epidemic of mad cow disease that struck the UK
and the recent outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe, the meatpacking
industry is looking for improved methods of screening and tracking animals
during processing.
A machine vision system that enables the inspection and identification
of individual animals is boosting production in a meatpacking plant and
making the meat safer for consumers.
Quality Meat Packers, a slaughterhouse in Toronto, was searching for a
way to track hogs throughout the disassembly process so that they could
record the health and fat content of each.
Marked with codes Richard Neidart, ATR's president, happened to make a
sales call to a company that was using abrasive water-jet cutters.
thoriama9903
http://www.east.asu.edu/msabr/research/workingpapers/thoriama9903.pdf The focus of this years International Agribusiness and Food
Management Congress is on agribusiness education, trade, and management
issues, as they are key components to our collective economic future---jobs,
income, and food products.
Both the U.S. and Europe must understand each other technically to mediate
differences.
This will mean that students and faculty will need language skills, understanding
of inter-cultural dynamics and technical food management skills to compete.
The Congress II: U.S.-European Attacking Global Barriers needs to make
several key contributions to the project and the academic program including:
1.
The successful efforts of the project will build relationships to feed
the world and assist academics and professionals in working together in
a more professional, academic and culturally aware manner.
footandmouthdisease
http://www.anz.com/Business/info_centre/economic_commentary/footandmouthdisease.pdf The current outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Europe
is unlikely to be a huge bonanza for the Australian meat industry.
A very real danger is that the current FMD scare, on top of the existing
BSE (mad-cow) problems, will undermine global consumer confidence in red
meat.
Once a country has FMD, or tries to vaccinate against it, it is prevented
from exporting to many other countries.
French beef consumption was down by 27% in mid Feb 2001 relative to a
year ago and Italian fresh beef consumption decreased 30% between Nov
2000 and Jan 2001.
NEW ZEALAND by: ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand) Limited.
Myths_and_Realities
Reality: Like people, animals occasionally get sick and animals
with bacterial infections are often treated with antibiotics.
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70% of antibiotics in
the U.S. are fed to healthy pigs, cows, and chickens to promote growth
and prevent disease (the term "antibiotic" is used here in the
general sense, to include antibiotics and functionally similar compounds).
Myth: Use of large quantities of antibiotics is essential to modern agriculture.
Reality: While agricultural use of antibiotics may not be the greatest
contributor to antibiotic resistant infections in people, it is significant.
Likewise in Europe, the scientific link between resistance to antibiotics
in the Enterococci bacteria and use of the antibiotic avoparcin in agriculture
justified an immediate withdrawal of avoparcin.
04-05
American coots (above) and bald eagles (opposite page) were
the first species of birds observed to suffer from the disease now known
as Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy.
DeGray Lake, Arkansas, was the scene of a grave situation; 29 bald eagles
(Haliaeetus leucocephalus) were found dead.
Eagles and coots were collected and sent to the U.S. Geological Survey's
National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) in Wisconsin for examination.
Because the disease was discovered in bald eagles and coots, it was first
referred to as Coot and Eagle Brain Lesion Syndrome (CEBLS).
However, the discovery of the disease in other waterfowl species in 1999
prompted a change; the disease is now called Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy,
or AVM.
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The CDC (communicable disease center) has solved simple cases
such as hepatitis carrier in a doughnut shop to finding the disease agent
in the Four Corners Hanta Virus story.
Example of the San Francisco hepatitis cohort study that become an HIV
study by accident.
In the Milwaukee Cryptosporidium outbreak nursing home were the key (travel
is out, food is out, air is out----it had to be the water).
Examples include: variation in flu virus (fear of the return of the 1919-1920
strain), long term sun spot type variations in pathogenic streptococci,
some strains of HIV I are much more harmful than other strains, great
cholera pandemics of history, etc.
slides
· 65 million years ago, something triggered mass extinction
on the lands and in the oceans, including dinosaur.
· This mass extinction is also known as the K-T extinction.
Does BSE have anything to do with it?
1960s British scientists Tikvah Alper and J.S. Griffith Griffith proposed
that an infectious agent lacking nucleic acid could cause scrapie.
1986 First BSE case diagnosed in the UK.
1996 New variant CJD (nvCJD) was identified in the UK.
1996 The European Commission imposed a ban on exports of British beef
and beef products.
· What powers an active galactic nuclei (AGN): supermassive black
holes or something else?
Smith
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), in swine, in Taiwan, in 1997---FMD
was diagnosed in one tiny area of the country in March and, in three months,
had spread throughout the entire country (Horn, 2001).
Psychological and social impacts have been huge; American Express reported
that tourism in the UK has been reduced by 85% since outbreak of the disease
(Horn, 2001).
Smith (2001a) reported that: (a) Traceability, or trace-back, in this
context refers to the ability to identify the source of meat from farm-to-fork
and/or from fork, back to the farm on which the animal source originated.
Culling of all suspect animals, their offspring, all traceable relatives
and all animals with TSE susceptibility in the affected and contact flocks.
vCJD
http://www.civilservant.org.uk/vCJD.pdf The British population is caught up in a real time experiment
to see the extent to which BSE ("mad cow disease") has been
transmitted to humans.
Another example of the difficulty of interpreting statistics was a British
Medical Journal (20 September 2002) report that scientists had examined
samples from 8,318 fairly young (and apparently healthy) people and had
found that only one of them was infected with the prion that causes vCJD.
Maybe another 24,000 samples might have been examined and no infection
found (in which case the infection rate comes down to around 2,000 in
the whole population) or maybe 3 infections would be found in the next
8,000 samples (in which case maybe 14,000 people might be infected).
PranaFlyer
The mission of Prana Biotechnology is to develop therapeutic
drugs designed to treat the underlying causes of brain degeneration during
the aging process.
Medical science has made a number of significant breakthroughs over the
past 120 years, with heart disease and cancer among the most active areas
of effort.
Based on discoveries made by Professors Ashley Bush at Massachusetts General
Hospital and Professor Colin Masters at the University of Melbourne, Prana
Biotechnology Limited is now regarded as one of the leading contenders
in the development of a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, with its first
product in Phase II human clinical trials.
