l.All records dated on or since July 1, 2000 relating to assessments
of the public health threat from mad cow disease or BSE, chronic wasting
disease, or any other disease that is relevant to assessing or understanding
the mad cow disease issue.
Operationally, the import control system provides for the review of information
about every product offered for entry into the U.S. and the opportunity
for physical examination of the products.
These Alerts are used to identify problem commodities, problem shippers,
or problem importers, in addition to providing guidance for import coverage.
July 1, 2000 of all meetings, communications to mad cow disease or BSE.
FDA is a participating Agency on all of these groups, and, in fact, chairs
the Senior Executive Interagency Steering Committee.
issuesintro
http://www.econet.sk.ca/pdf/issuesintro.pdf Our exploding technology and the resulting worldview that we
can manage and tinker with everything on the planet have made these times
the most complex in human history.
Arriving at practical and ethical decisions about controlling technology
has become difficult, especially for laymen, who often find themselves
looking on, bewildered, while opposing scientists hurl incomprehensible
jargon at one another.
But in most of these controversies it is wrong to confine the debate to
narrow technical subjects; the right context is usually much broader and
far more accessible to the public.
The altered E. coli bacteria can be grown in vats, producing large quantities
of rBGH, vastly more than could be obtained economically by extracting
the unmodified growth hormone directly from cows.
projectstrata
low level approaches use features like colors, free text..
automatic extraction of strata: like faces, text captions
If we specify a time constraint of Jan 1 to Jan 7, 1999, then only (a)
and (b) will be retrieved; while (c) will not.
-- what to suggest, to view, to record ..
skip, skip to what, what to switch back etc ..
Example shows an accurate detection of morphing!
How to classify shots into the correct class/category?
Segments found by visual methods Segments found by speech analysis How
to combine?
OpenLetter_vCJD
http://www.bloodservices.ca/ Each day, patients across the country rely on the goodwill
of blood donors to ensure there are adequate quantities of blood and blood
products available.
As of September 17, 2001, people will no longer be eligible to donate
blood or plasma if they have spent a cumulative total of three months
or more in the United Kingdom (U.K.) since 1980, or if they have spent
a cumulative total of three months or more in France since 1980, or if
they have spent a cumulative total of five years or more in Western Europe
outside the U.K. or France since 1980.
This policy is being introduced to address concerns regarding variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (variant CJD).
You should contact the staff at your nearest Canadian Blood Services location
for an assessment.
Canada wanted to take concrete measures to reduce the theoretical risk
of Canadians contracting variant CJD through blood transfusions.
0404hue
I am here today to provide testimony based on 12 years of professional
experience with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred
to as "Mad Cow Disease".
For the benefit of the committee, I have had the privilege to serve on
both the US and the UK scientific Advisory Committees on spongiform encephalopathies,
so that I can compare the US precautions to the situation that has evolved
in Europe over the past 15 years.
Importation of affected animals (cattle and other ruminants) and contaminated
products of animal origin such as meat and bone meal represent the greatest
risk for the introduction of BSE to the US.
GuidanceDoc
http://www.nnfa.org/services/science/pdf/GuidanceDoc.pdf First diagnosed in 1986 in Great Britain, bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE), widely known as "mad cow disease," is
a neurological disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle.
Other TSE's include scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease
of deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in humans.
Classical CJD occurs in about one person per million per year and was
around long before the emergence of BSE in cattle, occurring spontaneously
via inheritance or accidentally as a result of medical procedures.1,2,3
New variant CJD is directly linked to the consumption of meat/bone meal
from BSE-infected cattle.
FDA has stated that the BSE issue is a food issue, not specific to dietary
supplements.
However, manufacturers of dietary supplements who include bovine-derived
materials must ensure they follow appropriate quality-control measures.
ArticleAgricRisk
That was the message from the International Cooperative and
Mutual Insurance Federation's 16th meeting of reinsurance officials in
Athens at the end of May, when delegates said government help is needed
to provide adequate cover for European farmers.
William Dick, Partner Re's head of agricultural services, says: "Agricultural
risks are problematic because of the exposure to some catastrophic risks,
notably drought, epidemic disease and flood.
Weather -- the greatest risk Epidemic diseases may strike fear into the
hearts of farmers, and the insurance industry may balk at the prospect
of accepting them, but the greatest single exposure in agriculture is
the weather.
july2002
Wisconsin's deer population may be at risk, but what does Chronic
Wasting Disease mean to human health?
Many patients, doctors, nurses, and health care leaders are concerned
that the care delivered is not, essentially, the care we should receive.
More current and up-to-date information is available for consumers on
the Medicare, Medicaid and HMO web sites.
· The Wisconsin Medical Society is forming a task force to investigate
the issue of CWD.
Make sure your listing in the Department of Health & Family Services'
(DHFS) on-line physician database is accurate.
The Directory contains information about the vast majority of physicians
who were licensed in Wisconsin as of April 27, 2000.
brockman
It is pretty ironic that one hundred years later history has
repeated itself and, confronted with performance related pay and being
the only one of the six teacher unions in England and Wales to consistently
oppose performance related pay, that we are the fastest growing union
during the last year in England.
I used to believe, as a teacher in London, that the policies of the Blair
government had been specifically crafted for the irritation, annoyance,
and demoralization of teachers in England and Wales, resulting in a massive
teacher shortage crisis.
The quality and standards agenda was taken from us to bring in, instead,
a market for schools with schools competing for pupils, with the most
popular getting bigger and the weaker going to the wall.
e920-04
http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr00-01/english/panels/fseh/papers/e920-04.pdf This paper briefs Members on the present situation of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
(vCJD) in Hong Kong and overseas and the actions taken by the Administration
in dealing with the diseases.
3. Epidemiological studies have suggested that the most important cause
of the spread of BSE among ruminants (animals that chew the cud such as
cattle, sheep and goats) is related to the consumption of animal feed
containing ruminant-derived meat and bone meal1.
BSE specific Health Assurance for Imported Beef and Beef Products For
beef and beef products imported from high BSE incidence countries (i.e.
UK), the additional health assurance include (a) The beef is deboned,
or the beef products are derived from deboned meat.
