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Mad Cow News

For those of you still eating t-bone steaks here are a couple more interesting mad cow disease articles that I find informative. First, McDonalds want mad cow regulations to be stricter and it isn't often a corporation requests for tighter regs, and second, potential disease causing prions are found in deer meat in the US.

Mad cow safeguards faulted

Researchers and the nation’s No. 1 burger seller say the government is not fully protecting animals or people from mad cow disease.Stronger steps are needed to keep infection from entering the food chain for cattle, the critics wrote in comments to the Food and Drug Administration.

The group includes McDonald’s Corp., seven scientists and experts and a pharmaceutical supplier, Serologicals Corp.

The government proposed new safeguards two months ago, but researchers said that effort “falls woefully short’’ and would continue to let cattle eat potentially infected feed, the primary way mad cow disease is spread.“We do not feel that we can overstate the dangers from the insidious threat from these diseases and the need to control and arrest them to prevent any possibility of spread,’’ the researchers wrote.McDonald’s said the risk of exposure to the disease should be reduced to zero, or as close as possible. “It is our opinion that the government can take further action to reduce this risk,’’ wrote company Vice President Dick Crawford. LINK

Chronic wasting’ prions found in deer meat

Ever since chronic wasting disease was detected in Wisconsin nearly four years ago, hunters were reassured that they could greatly reduce their risk of getting the deadly neurological disorder by avoiding tissue from the brain and central nervous system of the animal.

Muscle tissue never has been shown to be infective, officials said. Not anymore. LINK

Want your McBSE with fries?