Sludge Watch ==> Mad Cow Tissue Sampling - test USDA certified cattle not high risk animals

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Hmmm..no wonder Canada has more reports of BSE than the USA.  I've long 
suspected the US BSE situation is rather like sludge illnesses.

Gov't officials refuse to adequately investigate or test for illness...then 
they report there is no illness!

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[CJDNEWS] MAD COW TISSUE SAMPLING FOR TESTING CONSISTS OF USDA CERTIFIED 
CATTLE



Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:07 AM
Subject: [CJDVoice] MAD COW TISSUE SAMPLING FOR TESTING CONSISTS OF USDA 
CERTIFIED CATTLE


Subject: MAD COW TISSUE SAMPLING FOR TESTING CONSISTS OF USDA CERTIFIED 
CATTLE
Date: February 17, 2007 at 7:48 am PST
Maricopa man admits defrauding government
Feb. 17, 2007 12:00 AM

A Maricopa man and his company have admitted defrauding the government of 
$390,000 by delivering bogus specimens to U.S. Department of Agriculture 
labs testing for mad-cow disease.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix, Roland Emerson Farabee, 
55, president of Farm Fresh Meats Inc., pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft of 
government funds, wire fraud and mail fraud.

Beginning in 2004, Farm Fresh Meats entered a government contract to collect 
samples from "high-risk" animals, receiving $150 for each specimen submitted 
to USDA laboratories. The contract required Farm Fresh to maintain the 
cattle carcasses in cold storage until tests were completed.

Investigators discovered that Farm Fresh was submitting samples from healthy 
cattle that were USDA-certified and failing to maintain the carcasses in 
storage.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0217B1-talker0217.html

[Docket No. 03-025IFA] FSIS Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk
Materials for Human Food and Requirement for the Disposition of
Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle 03-025IFA 03-025IFA-2 9/13/2005

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/03-025IFA/03-025IFA-2.pdf

Suppressed peer review of Harvard study October 31, 2002.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/topics/BSE_Peer_Review.pdf

[Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf