Opening to Canadian beef conditional: Health Ministry 2014/01/17 17:30:08
Taipei, Jan. 17 (CNA) Taiwan's upcoming market-opening measure for Canadian
beef will not cover cattle parts with a high risk of carrying mad cow disease,
the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Friday.
These high-risk parts include internal organs, skulls, eyes, brains, spinal
cords and ground meat, which will remain barred from entering Taiwan, said
Chiang Yu-mei, deputy director-general of the Food and Drug Administration under
the ministry.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs announced earlier in the day that the
government is to allow imports of Canadian bone-in beef and other meat products
from cattle under 30 months of age.
At present, only boneless beef from cattle under 30 months of age is
allowed into the country.
Chiang noted that Canada, which last reported a bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak three years ago, is currently listed as a country
with "controlled BSE risk" by the World Organization for Animal Health.
The decision to open Taiwan's market to Canadian beef was made after a risk
assessment, discussions and four inspection tours of the North American
country's cattle industry, with a focus on feed and slaughterhouse sanitation,
she said.
The conditions set by Taiwan for Canadian beef imports will be the same as
those for beef from the United States, another BSE-affected country, she
added.
Based on data from 2012, as much as 94 percent of beef demand in Taiwan is
met by imports, with 46 percent from Australia, 24.76 percent from the United
States, 23 percent from New Zealand and 0.3 percent from Canada. Other smaller
suppliers include Panama, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Agriculture Minister Chen Bao-ji said the opening will have little impact
on Taiwan's cattle industry, which has only a 6 percent market share.
Agreeing with Chen, Chang Chuan-chung, chairman of the Taiwan Beef Industry
Progress Association, said domestically produced beef is well-received among
local customers and enjoys a stable market share because Taiwan's cattle
industry does not use leanness enhancing drugs in raising the animals.
Legislators, meanwhile, expressed their support for the plan.
Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng said the conditional opening of
Canadian beef imports takes into account the safety of consumers while
demonstrating Taiwan's commitment to fair trade.
The move should be helpful to Taiwan's bid to join the Trans-Pacific
Partnership, he said.
Hsu Chung-hsin of the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union said the opening
falls in line with the most-favored-nation principle of the World Trade
Organization, given that Taiwan has already opened its market to U.S. bone-in
beef.
(By Lung Jui-yun, Yang Shu-min, Chen Wei-ting and Y.F. Low) ENDITEM/J
> Hsu Chung-hsin of the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union said the
opening falls in line with the most-favored-nation principle of the World Trade
Organization, given that Taiwan has already opened its market to U.S. bone-in
beef.
IN reality, this does fall in line with the WTO/OIE/USDA inc mad cow BSE
trade policy. exactly what is does, it allows Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy TSE prion disease to be accepted as part of the commodity itself.
yes, this allows the free trading of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
TSE prion mad cow type disease. what it also does now, it has made it acceptable
for death to come from different commodities, if the _documented_ body bag count
does not get to high
(key word here is documented, because if it all stays sporadic, problem
solved $$$, remember, all iatrogenic CJD is, is sporadic CJD, until the route
and source of the iatrogenic event that took places is proven, documented, and
then put in the academic domain, which very rarely ever happens do to the long
incubation, and then trace back there from),
and IF, the trace back to any friendly fire cannot be proven, then the BSE
MMR is what it is, minimal risk, which means that some risk is acceptable. this
now includes the iatrogenic (friendly fire, pass it forward, medical, surgical,
dental, tissue, blood) spread of the TSE prion mad cow type disease around the
globe, and you never have to leave home. just think about that for a while.
kind regards, terry
IN A NUT SHELL ;
(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)
11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries.
*** The OIE is __not___ responsible for inaccurate publication of country
disease status based on inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological
status or other significant events that were not promptly reported to the
Central Bureau,***
Sunday, December 15, 2013
*** FDA PART 589 -- SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED FROM USE IN ANIMAL FOOD OR FEED
VIOLATIONS OFFICIAL ACTION INDICATED OAI UPDATE DECEMBER 2013 UPDATE
Saturday, December 21, 2013
**** Complementary studies detecting classical bovine spongiform
encephalopathy infectivity in jejunum, ileum and ileocaecal junction in
incubating cattle ****
Saturday, December 15, 2012
*** Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: the effect of oral exposure dose on
attack rate and incubation period in cattle -- an update 5 December 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
*** Prion in Saliva of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy–Infected Cattle
Subject: Infectivity in Skeletal Muscle of Cattle with Atypical Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy
UPDATE NORTH AMERICA MAD COW DISEASE
Monday, March 19, 2012
Infectivity in Skeletal Muscle of Cattle with Atypical Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy
PLoS One. 2012; 7(2): e31449.
USDA AUDIT ON CANADA'S MEAT INSPECTION DISTURBING (pot calling kettle black
again)
EDMONTON - Some of former Alberta premier Ralph Klein's most colourful
quotes — and the reactions they elicited:
SNIP...
"This all came about through the discovery of a single, isolated case of
mad cow disease in one Alberta cow on May 20th. The farmer — I think he was a
Louisiana fish farmer who knew nothing about cattle ranching. I guess any
self-respecting rancher would have shot, shovelled and shut up, but he didn't do
that." — Klein recalls how the mad cow crisis started and rancher Marwyn
Peaster's role. The premier was speaking at the Western Governors Association
meeting in Big Sky, Mont. September 2004.
"The premier meant that in an ironic or almost a sarcastic way." — Klein
spokesman Gordon Turtle.
---
"You would have to eat 10 billion meals of brains, spinal cords, ganglia,
eyeballs and tonsils." — Klein speaking in Montreal in January 2005 on the risk
of humans contracting mad cow disease.
---
"I would offer $5 billion to have a Japanese person to come over here and
eat nothing but Alberta beef for a year. And if he gets mad cow disease, I would
be glad to give him $5 billion — make it $10 billion — Canadian." — Klein
speaking after Japan closed its borders to Canadian beef.
---
Wednesday, December 22, 2010.
Manitoba veterinarian has been fined $10,000 for falsifying certification
documents for U.S. bound cattle and what about mad cow disease?
CENSORSHIP IS A TERRIBLE THING $$$.
Canada has had a COVER-UP policy of mad cow disease since about the 17th
case OR 18th case of mad cow disease. AFTER THAT, all FOIA request were ignored
$$$.
THIS proves there is indeed an epidemic of mad cow disease in North
America, and it has been covered up for years and years, if not for decades, and
it’s getting worse $$$.
Thursday, February 10, 2011.
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY REPORT UPDATE CANADA FEBRUARY 2011
and how to hide mad cow disease in Canada Current as of: 2011-01-31.
Thursday, January 17, 2013.
Canada, U.S. agree on animal-disease measures to protect trade, while
reducing human and animal health protection.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010.
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SIXTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA.
Thursday, August 19, 2010.
REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH CASE OF BOVINE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHY (BSE) IN CANADA.
Friday, March 4, 2011.
Alberta dairy cow found with mad cow disease.
Increased Atypical Scrapie Detections.
Press reports indicate that increased surveillance is catching what
otherwise would have been unreported findings of atypical scrapie in sheep. In
2009, five new cases have been reported in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and
Saskatchewan. With the exception of Quebec, all cases have been diagnosed as
being the atypical form found in older animals. Canada encourages producers to
join its voluntary surveillance program in order to gain scrapie-free status.
The World Animal Health will not classify Canada as scrapie-free until no new
cases are reported for seven years. The Canadian Sheep Federation is calling on
the government to fund a wider surveillance program in order to establish the
level of prevalence prior to setting an eradication date. Besides long-term
testing, industry is calling for a compensation program for farmers who report
unusual deaths in their flocks.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Canada, USA, Bad feed, mad cows: Why we know three BSE cases had a common
origin and why the SSS policy is in full force $$$
Friday, January 10, 2014
USDA AUDIT ON CANADA'S MEAT INSPECTION DISTURBING (pot calling kettle black
again)
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
*** Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Importation of Bovines and Bovine
Products; Final Rule Federal Register / Vol. 78 , No. 233 / Wednesday, December
4, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
*** APHIS Finalizes Bovine Import Regulations in Line with International
Animal Health Standards while enhancing the spread of BSE TSE prion mad cow type
disease around the Globe
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
*** INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF CJD, VCJD AND OTHER HUMAN PRION
DISEASES IN HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS Variably Protease-Sensitive
Prionopathy (VPSPr) January 15, 2014
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
*** Detection of Infectivity in Blood of Persons with Variant and Sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Monday, January 13, 2014
*** Prions in Variably Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy: An Update Pathogens
2013 Pathogens 2013, 2, 457-471; doi:10.3390/pathogens2030457
Friday, January 10, 2014
*** vpspr, sgss, sffi, TSE, an iatrogenic by-product of gss, ffi, familial
type prion disease, what it ???
*** PRICE OF CWD TSE PRION POKER GOES UP 2014 ***
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Molecular Barriers to Zoonotic Transmission of Prions
*** chronic wasting disease, there was no absolute barrier to conversion of
the human prion protein.
*** Furthermore, the form of human PrPres produced in this in vitro assay
when seeded with CWD, resembles that found in the most common human prion
disease, namely sCJD of the MM1 subtype.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Management of neurosurgical instruments and patients exposed to
creutzfeldt-jakob disease 2013 December
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Prion diseases in humans: Oral and dental implications
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Recommendation of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety on the
classification of activities using prion genes and prion protein January 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
*** Detection of Infectivity in Blood of Persons with Variant and Sporadic
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Monday, January 13, 2014
*** Prions in Variably Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy: An Update Pathogens
2013 Pathogens 2013, 2, 457-471; doi:10.3390/pathogens2030457
Friday, January 10, 2014
*** vpspr, sgss, sffi, TSE, an iatrogenic by-product of gss, ffi, familial
type prion disease, what it ???
*** PRICE OF CWD TSE PRION POKER GOES UP 2014 ***
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Molecular Barriers to Zoonotic Transmission of Prions
*** chronic wasting disease, there was no absolute barrier to conversion of
the human prion protein.
*** Furthermore, the form of human PrPres produced in this in vitro assay
when seeded with CWD, resembles that found in the most common human prion
disease, namely sCJD of the MM1 subtype.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Management of neurosurgical instruments and patients exposed to
creutzfeldt-jakob disease 2013 December
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Prion diseases in humans: Oral and dental implications
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Recommendation of the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety on the
classification of activities using prion genes and prion protein January 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America updated report
August 2013
*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America with Canada
seeing an extreme increase of 48% between 2008 and 2010
Sunday, October 13, 2013
*** CJD TSE Prion Disease Cases in Texas by Year, 2003-2012
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Public Health
Crisis
TAIWAN SupremeMASTER
full text with source references ;
News
Taiwan
CDC
updates
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) incidence in Taiwan and announces two new
highly probable cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD)
According to the result of the third case investigation in 2011 conducted
by the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) working group of the Taiwan Neurological
Society, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) announces the
latest updates on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance data and
reports two highly probable cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD).
Between 1997 and March of 2011, a total of 439 suspected CJD cases were reported
and investigated in Taiwan, including 259 probable, highly probable and
confirmed CJD cases. Of the 259 cases, 255 cases are sCJD cases, including 27
probable, 226 highly probable and 2 confirmed sCJD cases, 3 cases are confirmed
genetic CJD (gCJD) cases, and one case is a highly probable variant CJD (vCJD)
case imported from the UK. Over the past decade, the annual CJD incidence rate
in Taiwan is approximately 0.5~1 case per 1,000,000 persons, which is similar to
that in other countries around the world.
There are four types of CJD: sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD),
acquired CJD, genetic CJD and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-related
variant CJD (vCJD). sCJD accounts for about 80~90% of all CJD cases. sCJD is
believed to result from the build-up of abnormal prion proteins. Acquired CJD is
usually transmitted through certain medical procedures such as injections of
contaminated pituitary growth hormone and grafts of contaminated dura mater.
Taiwan CDC states that CJD is listed as one of the Category IV Notifiable
Infectious Diseases in Taiwan and Taiwan has a comprehensive approach to
managing CJD, including a case reporting system, a disease surveillance system,
a case investigation mechanism, nosocomial infection control guidelines, and
case reporting guidelines. When a probable, highly probable or confirmed case is
reported, Taiwan CDC will request the Taiwan Blood Services Foundation, the
Bureau of Medical Affairs and the diagnosing hospital in writing to tighten
their implementation of blood safety strategies, graft control measures and
nosocomial transmission and infection control measures to reduce the risk of
transmission. For more information on CJD, please visit the Taiwan CDC’s
website: http://www.cdc.gov.tw/
Hit: 2125 Updated: 2012-4-10 11:20 Reviewed: 2013-11-19 11:34 Source:
Taipei City Hospital
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Taiwan Group urges halt of U.S. beef imports due to 'L-type' mad cow
disease
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
TAIWAN DOH censured for downplaying probable human mad-cow disease death
2011/02/15 18:32:27
TSS
with kindest regards, terry
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
flounder9@verizon.net
