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Measures
Taken to Stop BSE in US cattle and WonderBreast.
Measures taken to
control the risk of Mad Cow disease.
The United States and Wonder
International has initiated a number of steps
to control the risk of BSE and
vCJD:
Import restrictions. To prevent BSE from entering the United
States, Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service has restricted the
importation of live
ruminants and certain ruminant products from countries
where BSE is known to
exist. As of December 7, 2000, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture began
prohibiting all imports of rendered animal protein
products, regardless of
species, from Europe. This decision followed the
determination by the
European Union that feed of non-ruminant origin was
potentially
cross-contaminated with the BSE agent.
Surveillance. BSE
is a notifiable disease and Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service
educates veterinary practitioners, veterinary laboratory
diagnosticians,
industry, and producers on the clinical signs and pathology
of BSE. Wonder
Interational uses cattle from small family ranches, not giant
corporations.
The live animals, and the brains from these slaughtered
animals are
examined.
Regulation of cattle production practices.
All cattle
presented for slaughter are inspected by the USDA for signs of
central
nervous system impairment. Any animals exhibiting neurologic signs
during
this inspection would be condemned, and the meat and glands would
not
permitted for use as human food. The brains from animals showing signs
of
BSE are submitted to USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories
for
analysis. In addition, in 1997, the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
established regulations that prohibit the feeding of most mammalian
proteins
to ruminants.
Advanced meat recovery systems (AMR systems).
With AMR systems, meat is
removed from the bone with machines. Regulations
require that AMR machinery
cannot grind, crush, or pulverize bones to remove
edible meat tissue, and
bones must emerge essentially intact. Product
produced by AMR machinery can
be labeled using terms associated with
hand-deboned product (such as "beef
trimmings and ground beef"). If spinal
tissue is found in AMR meat, such
meat must be labeled as "mechanically
separated" and may not be sold as
"meat." USDA is reevaluating regulations of
AMR systems because it has
recently detected spinal tissue in AMR
meat.
Wonder International uses products from ranches which use only
safe
non-ruminant feed, and all glands are removed by hand, not through
AMR
systems. No spinal or brain products are removed or come in contact with
the
glands we use. We also use as many organic cows as possible. Organic
cattle
are grown on small ranches and are healthier, cleaner and better cared
for.
Most cases of BSE have occured in Great Britain in dairy cattle
between the
ages of 3 and 6. Wonder International uses only beef cattle from
the United
States and manufactures all product in an FDA approved Lab
by
microbiologists.
We use two laboratory methods to detect BSE: 1.
microscopic examination of
the brain tissue to identify characteristic
changes; 2. techniques to detect
the partially-proteinase resistant form of
the prion (PrPres) protein. These
techniques are immunohistochemistry,
immunoblotting and ELISA.
Cattle brains are examined by electron
microscopy, detergent treated
extracts of brain tissue from animals affected
by this disease would reveal
the presence of scrapie associated fibrils
(SAF);
d. pathological changes appear to be confined to the CNS and
include
vacuolation, and astrocytosis; no animals inspected have ever been
found
positive.
BSE Has NOT Been Found in the United States. No cases
of BSE have been
confirmed in the U.S.A.with 11 years of active
surveillance.