http://www.ipsos-reid.com/pdf/publicat/RRtoc_0102.pdf Add food safety concerns to Canadians' list of worries about
threats to their health.
Mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease may not have crossed our borders
(yet?), but the media play they have received aren't making Canadians
feel very comfortable about their food supply in general.
It seems that consumers have faith in the foundations of the Canadian
economy, predicting that it has the legs needed to withstand the ripple
effects of other nations' economic downturns.
A recent Ipsos-Reid survey highlights Canadians' love of their own national
treasures by revealing how many of them plan to stay within Canada's own
borders on their summer vacation this year.
DreadDisease
If the human form of mad cow disease appears in the United
States, CWRU pathologist Pierluigi Gambetti likely will make the devastating
discovery.
American Association of Pathologists established this center at CWRU in
1997 to monitor and diagnose cases of prion disease (pronounced PREE-on).
Both mad cow, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and its human
counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), are diseases caused
by abnormal prion proteins.
Still, he and his crack team of CWRU research scientists are not receiving
enough samples from people who have died with symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease---either the classical form (CJD) that scientists have been tracking
for decades or the new variant.
mad_cows_na
http://www.earthsave.bc.ca/materials/articles/articles/pdf/mad_cows_na.pdf Richard Marsh, professor of animal health at the University
of Wisconsin, said at least 14 per cent of all U.S. cattle rendered into
feed are made into protein supplements given to other cattle.
If BSE is present in North American beef, would it not begin to show in
increased cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, as it has
in Britain?
Meat (not just red meat), eggs and milk products all directly contribute
to the diseases of western, affluent countries.
EARTHSAVE CANADA reports a significant growth in the number of people
shifting toward a plant-based diet.
Interestingly, much less land is required to support a plant-based diet
than a diet based on animal products.
allard
http://www2.arnes.si/~surtvidr/egf/allard.pdf As mentioned by Christian Huyghe in his opening remarks, multi-functionality
was first accepted as a valid concept in 1992.
This is an indication that research in agriculture and furthermore in
grasslands can respond rapidly to its surroundings and this is an improvement
to what could be done only a few years ago.
As we know, researchers have many different objectives but in a team working
on a specific problem, objectives need to be complementary; research objectives
maybe numerous but there should be one goal which in turn will make it
that much easier to present to farmers or the population.
Because grasslands and multi-functionality can be easily associated and
that future research money maybe linked to multi-functionality we could
get more money for forage research.
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All catheters are marked for "single use only" on
the manufacturer's packaging, but angioplastic catheters are very expensive,
and if re-sterilization is reliable to eliminate all pathogens, whether
these catheters should be reused or not becomes an issue for discussion.
The disease in humans is similar to a hereditary disease called Creutzfeldt-Jacob
disease (CJD) and is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vJCD).
Owing to this, the Quebec health authority in Canada officially banned
the use of re-sterilized angioplasty catheters.
However, in 1999, there was a study that showed reused catheters were
not associated with infectious disease transmission and pleaded for considering
widespread use in Canada.3 6 The culprit agent of mad-cow disease or vCJD
is believed to be a prion protein.
nl2001JulAugPhilly
http://www.clubveg.org/philly/newsletter/nl2001JulAugPhilly.PDF It is animal tissues to livestock still irresponsible to assert
that we contains major loopholes which have no mad cow disease in the
allow cows blood to be fed to United calves, for example, and pigs States.
Fragrant coconut rice is a wonderful counterpoint to the hot and spicy
tofu mixture.
2 T. fresh lime juice 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro Rice: In a 3-quart
saucepan, heat oil over medium-low heat.
2. False -- Plant foods can supply adequate protein without the excess
protein most Americans eat.
Note: Kale and other leafy green vegetables are an excellent source of
calcium in the diet.
bisc150-ca1-hr-4
LONDON--The spread of "mad cow" disease that [Image]
is fueling food fears in Europe also is clouding the already dim future
of biotech foods across the Continent, government officials and environmental
groups say.
Even before the latest BSE crisis, environmental groups had identified
animal feed as the next battlefront in the war against genetically modified
organisms, or GMOs, as the crops and foods are collectively known.
Advocates say genetic modification of plants is the way to produce cheaper,
more plentiful and more healthful foods for the world's growing population,
and that biotech foods are as important for humankind as biotech medicines
or the breeding of animals for use in organ transplants.
D004412
Many Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems are appearing
which require authoritative names for diseases, therapies, procedures,
symptoms and indications.
There are a limited number of ways to have clinical concepts coded authoritatively
in the EMR: (1) We can require caregivers to record only authoritative
names.
If the caregiver types in mad cow disease, it is possible to return a
short list of names for that concept, specifically its names in several
different naming systems such as SNOMED or MeSH.
Lexical and Metaphrase are trademarks of Lexical Technology, Inc. Unified
Medical Language System, UMLS, and Metathesaurus are registered trademarks
of the National Library of Medicine.
FoodSafetyProposal
Following highly contentious public health crises associated
with Bovine sponigorm encephalopathy ("mad cow disease" or BSE)
and dioxins and international trade disputes over beef growth hormones
and genetically-modified foods, European food safety institutions have
been undergoing a major transformation.
One of the important characteristics of food safety regulation is the
tension it produces between consumer protection and trade liberalization.
As Grace Skogstad argues, this new framework represents a partial internationalization
of food safety regulation.
Our intention is that these papers will be then made available as IES
working papers.
We may then pursue the publication of these papers as a collected volume.
nov_2000
He said parents in Geneva were not targeting beef originating
from any particular country.
However, concerns in France over the new human strain of mad cow disease,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), have "spilled over" into Switzerland.
Fuhrer, who heads canton Zurich's police department, has the higher profile
of the two candidates, and received most votes from the parliamentary
group.
The long-awaited auction in Switzerland of licenses for the new generation
of mobile telephones was postponed on Monday shortly before the sale was
due to begin.
A spokeswoman for Orange said the company was "a little irritated"
by the move.
However, the decision has welcomed by one of the parties in the Swiss
government, the Social Democrats, and trade unions.
sept2002
http://www.cfwf.ca/scoops/sept2002.pdf For 19 Alberta farm writers, the annual tour in Alberta's Peace
River Country was well worth attending.
Cultural and historical stops included Fairview College, where we listened
to former ag minister Walter Paskowski laud the virtues of the Peace (where
he farms); and the town of Peace River.
At this time, I'd like to thank outgoing AFWA president Geoff Ludkin for
putting together an excellent tour for delegates this year in the Peace.
by Will Verboven Just when we thought the media's fascination with "mad
cow" hysteria had abated, the death of an individual in Canada from
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) or "mad cow disease"
has, once again, cranked up the news service wires.
Examiner_02_Jan_2002
I predict that the biggest food stories of the upcoming year
will be about environmental, socio-political and life-and-death health
issues, eclipsing such burning topics as this year's new model of Osterizer
or the threeingredient goose recipe.
November's Nature magazine reported that the ocean's fish supplies are
waning based on a correction of grossly overreported catches by Chinese
officials.
Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation," the stunning expose of
the fast food industry and, most shockingly, the practices of the cattle
raising and beef processing industries, was actually eclipsed by the outbreak
of "mad cow" disease in Europe.
No one knows whether the recession or the fallout from everyone's reluctance
to fly presents the worse threat to the restaurant industry, but the combination
of the two has thrown restaurateurs for a loop.
mad_cow_alert
In addition to diseased farm animals, the city of Los Angeles
sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering
plant every month.
Federal meat inspectors and consumer groups are protesting the move to
classify tumors and open sores as aesthetic problems, which permits the
meat to get the government's purple seal of approval as a wholesome food
product.
In 1998, the inspections and safety system reclassified an array of animal
diseases as being "defects that rarely or never present a direct
public health risk" and said "unaffected carcass portions"
could be passed on to consumers by cutting out lesions.
Fish provide excessive amounts of protein, and some fish are also high
in fat.
TAMUS1360
TAMUS #1360 provides methods for the generation of a transgenic
bovine resistant to "Mad Cow Disease."
The bovine PrP gene was cloned and then modifi ed by site-directed mutagenesis
to produce a BSE-resistant form of the gene.
This modifi ed gene was then targeted to the location of the endogenous
PrP gene in bovine fetal fi broblasts in order to replace the susceptible
gene with the resistant form.
Live BSE-resistant cattle offspring from genetically manipulated fetal
fi broblasts can then be produced.
· In the absence of suffi cient knowledge of the normal function
of the prevalent PrP protein, prudence dictates maintaining a BSE-resistant
but functional copy in transgenic cattle.
· This method is applicable to all breeds of beef and dairy cattle.
CSL 3-12-02 readlist
Abnormally shaped proteins have become one of the chief suspects
in the search for the causes of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's.
Recently reissued in a revised paperback edition which tells of the thrilling
discovery, in 1995, of "Hannah's gene" -- the inherited factor
responsible for most early onset Alzheimer's cases -- Hannah's Heirs also
shows the impact of this discovery on the treatment of late onset cases
of the disease.
Combining recent medical discoveries with historical and geographical
scholarship, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease traces the concept
of disease throughout history and in each major world region.
