This guideline deals with the breeding or purchase of animals
and managed weight gain (living regime) prior to resale or slaughter.
Husbandry can include the production of by-products from the animals,
such as eggs and milk.
It also takes into account feeding, shelter, disease control and the general
welfare of the animals.
Potential environmental issues associated with animal husbandry include:
water supply and wastewater management; storage of oils and pesticides;
solid and hazardous waste management; welfare/ethical issues.
Check surface/foul drains, soakaways, underground drainage system, interceptors
etc. Wastewater treatment facilities.
Secondary containment of tanks (bunds etc.) to prevent spills reaching
the wider environment.
bisc150-supp_protein_folding
or the first time, researchers have found a way to treat two
deadly heart ailments that are caused by a protein that folds into an
abnormal shape.
Although the treatment is tailored to the two forms of heart disease,
it is based on principles that may lead to similar therapies for other
conditions caused by misfolded proteins, including Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, adult-onset diabetes and the human form of mad cow
disease.
In both diseases, a normal protein that ferries nourishing factors to
heart tissue assumes an abnormal shape.
"This work provides an inspiring example to us all," said Dr.
Susan Lindquist, director of the Whitehead Institute at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology who studies protein misfolding in yeast.
inno10e_0405
He is one of the leading researchers of the human variant of
mad cow sent.
the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Professor Adriano Aguzzi considerably helped
the world with his discoveries in the fight against the pernicious disease.
examine the pathogens, known as prions, also plays an important role.
We assume that the new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans
is identical to mad cow disease.
Was microscopy a major tool for the discovery of the morphologic structures?
A major part of your work now consists in detecting the pathogens known
as prions.
Because all high-risk organs like the brain and spinal marrow have been
removed from the human food chain by now.
Mar1901
Last Tuesday, the U.S. banned the import of all live animals
and raw meat from the European Union after the highly contagious foot
and mouth disease (FMD) was detected in France despite strict travel and
livestock restrictions.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has established a toll-free telephone
center to respond to questions from the public, industry, and media regarding
USDA's response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe.
If you would like to obtain printed brochures for distribution or placement,
email Carla Everett at ceverett@tahc.state.tx.us or call the Texas Animal
Health Commission at 1-800-550-8242.
"By helping to ensure that only BSE-free meat enters the human food
chain, these tests are making an important contribution to public safety."
37_39_winter2002
With the outbreak of Mad Cow disease across the United Kingdom
and Europe in the early 1990's, a strange type of pathogen entered the
spotlight.
Discovered in 1982 by Nobel Prize winner Stanley Prusiner, the prion is
simply a single protein completely devoid of any genetic material.
Though normal genetic abnormalities are known to lead to the creation
of this pathogenic protein, the true danger of prions is their ability
to persist and spread through populations of animals.
The prion itself is a structurally modified form of the PrP protein (PrPSc)
that arises from improper folding; one consequence of this new conformation
is that PrPSc is resistant to proteases, enzymes that cleave old or damaged
proteins.
ISO TC 37-4 N031 Term extraction
http://kibs.kaist.ac.kr/isotc37sc4/doc1/ISO
TC 37-4 N031 Term extraction.pdf Using general dictionary and domain dictionary If only in general
dictionary, classify as a word, not domainspecific term If undecided,
bootstrap looping.
First bootstrapping loop: assign probability based on the syntactic context
of a term or word dependin g on seed information Apply a threshold value
to classify term or word Second bootstrapping loop: use the syntactic
context of the newly classified terms and general words.
Search: mad cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy NOUN: abbr.
The awkward name reflects the similarity to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(CJD), a deadly brain illness that strikes about one person per million
per year, due to genetic or unkno wn causes.
3950
http://www.borsaitalia.it/media/star/db/pdf/3950.pdf These lower than expected figures are mainly related to a higher
than estimated inventory write-down (around Euro 21.5 million versus 10
million), as a consequence of the current devaluation of beef prices (around
20%) due to the "mad cow" disease.
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nah2001index
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/nah2001index.pdf Aging and blood pressure, Sept., p. 4
Environment genetically engineered foods, Nov., p. 1, 2 impact of food,
May, p. 2
and stroke, Sept., p. 1 trans fats and diabetes, heart attacks, Oct.,
p. 12 trans fat in margarines, Dec., p. 10 Fish and Fish oil and diabetes,
May, p. 10 genetically engineered, Nov., p. 1 and macular degeneration,
May, p. 9
Fields Premium Cookies, Mar. Nestle's Yogurt Raisinets, Jan./Feb.
Heart disease and black tea, Nov., p. 9
Meat labeling proposal by USDA, Apr., p. 2 lunch meats, brand-name rating,
Nov., p. 13 and mad cow disease, Jun., p. 1
Gram_Nov_Dec_99_8i3
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bjmg/Gram_Nov_Dec_99_8i3.pdf The response to genetically modified foods differs greatly
from the United States to Europe.
In counterpoint, U.S. and European firms are racing to develop the revolutionary
new technology that could transform 21st century farming with bigger crop
yields, better nutritional content and fewer herbicides and pesticides
- at no known risk.
Last year, the U.S. raised the lion's share of the nearly 30 million hectares
(74.13 million acres) of GM seeds sown worldwide, with 40 percent of the
soybeans and 20 percent of the maize planted there modified.
In December, Americans are among a band of travelers kidnapped in the
Yemen desert by gunmen seeking bargaining chips.
Countries that have strong lobbies in the United States or people we have
strategically critical relations with, the State Department is reluctant
to put them on that (advisory) list.
FMDDifferences
http://www.ecolab.com/news/FMDDifferences.pdf How is the disease spread between animals, farms, and countries?
Virus (single stranded, non-enveloped, RNA virus) Cloven hoofed animals
such as pigs, sheep, goats and cattle Extremely rare and symptoms are
minor compared to those seen in animals.
The virus can persist in meat and environmental surfaces for more than
30 days.
Amplification occurred when prion containing rendered bovine meat and
bone meal was fed to calves.
Symptoms of disease Time from exposure to onset of symptoms Can the infectious
agent be destroyed by disinfectants?
Although more tolerant of disinfectants than other types of infectious
agents, many types of disinfectants have been tested and proven effective.
19feb-eng
British supermarket chains replace GM feed Two of the top three
food retailers in the UK, Tesco and Asda, announced that all their ownbrand
meat products will be produced only from farm animals fed with non-GE
feed, and that they are also committed to non-GE dairy products.
Spider genes in potatoes and tobacco Scientists of the German Leibnitz
Institute for plant genetics inserted certain spider genes into the DNA
of tobacco and potatoes.
WHO and FAO warn of second-class pesticides in developing countries In
a joint statement FAO and WHO said that about one third of pesticides
sold in developing countries and representing a market value of 900 million
dollars do not comply with international regulations.
ENGMINI
This has mostly happened through improved hygiene, both in
the health care system and in the community, and also through vaccination.
Through intensive and systematic work, Sweden has reached a situation
with a proportionally low number of infectious disease cases.
In spite of this advantageous situation, the cost of infectious diseases
is billions of Swedish crowns (SEK) every year.
The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) is an expert
authority with a mission to follow the epidemiological infectious disease
situation among citizens and promote the control of these diseases.
SMI works together with many other government authorities and various
organizations that perform different roles in the infectious disease control
area.
PerthSu1
http://www.sustainability.dpc.wa.gov.au/Seminars/SeminarFiles/PerthSu1.pdf Clive Hamilton Executive Director The Australia Institute www.tai.org.au
We are on the verge of an enormous industrial transition, one based on
the principles of sustainability.
For those businesses in Australia that have not woken up to the importance
of sustainability, here is a question: Why is it that many of the world's
biggest corporations are attempting to build sustainability into the framework
they use for doing business?
The same magazine had earlier observed that 'business is increasingly
convinced that a global accord to regulate emissions is inevitable' and
that US industry fears that it will be shut out of the opportunities provided
by emissions trading.
ps3s
Strain B requires supplemented media but has the ability to
grow on plates containing ampicillin.
If you grow the mixture on plates that contain fully supplemented media
and contains ampicillin only the Strain B cells will grow.
Strain A has wild-type, functioning copies of the genes required to make
Arg, Ura, Leu, His, or Gly.
When you mutagenize haploid cells, a single mutation can result in a phenotype,
even when the phenotype is recessive.
You would grow your mutant cells on fully supplemented media.
You isolate two forms of the agent, one form is indeed disease causing,
the other is harmless.
food-focus-02
http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/publications/food-focus/food-focus-02.pdf In this issue (our second Food Focus) we look at the lessons
in the "Mad Cow" situation in Great Britain, and review positive
progress in a raft of access areas from seafood to seeds, as well as the
technologies helping New Zealand to set and maintain the standards.
MAFRA has been well aware of the concerns about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE) for a number of years and has had systems in place to protect New
Zealand's herds from the possibility of importing BSE since it was first
identified as a risk in 1988.
Monique says being based in the plant keeps her in touch with industry
issues and the working realities for the people in the front line.
