BSE found on farm

Sid · Sep 17, 2021

Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm

Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.

www.bbc.co.uk

serf · Sep 17, 2021

Sid said:
Infection known as mad cow disease found on Somerset farm

Officials say there is no current risk to public health from the infection, known as mad cow disease.

www.bbc.co.uk

Beef price must be to high again ....
Wait for bbc to wheel out holstein cow falling over in the yard again !

Levelsman · Sep 17, 2021

It's alright, as long as all the food she ate was RT assured, must just be staggers.

Oh dear, what if some of it was imported...................

Adeptandy · Sep 17, 2021

Maybe another way to reduce the meat consumption, would be the BBC reporting it, conveniently leaked from HMG, or am I just getting worn down by the duplicity of our politicians

betweenthelines · Sep 17, 2021

Levelsman said:
It's alright, as long as all the food she ate was RT assured, must just be staggers.

Oh dear, what if some of it was imported...................

What if the cow was imported?

Seriously, until there's more information, it's difficult to comment-don't even know if it's a dairy cow atm.

Steevo · Sep 17, 2021

Was it a plant based cow?

Bongodog · Sep 17, 2021

There are about 140 cases of the human form CJD each year in the UK, is it not surprising that the bovine form will also pop up every now and then ?

DENNING · Sep 18, 2021

Given that the French are annoyed with the UK at the moment due to their failure to meet their commitments and build submarines for the Aussies in a timely manner, I wonder whether they'll jump on this as an excuse to retaliate, even symbolically.

curlietailz · Sep 18, 2021

Levelsman said:
It's alright, as long as all the food she ate was RT assured, must just be staggers.

Oh dear, what if some of it was imported...................

This needs investigating ?!

Ceri · Sep 18, 2021

Ah well they can't get staff to slaughter pigs & chickens & now mad cow disease in the beef, this lamb trades going to be off the clock. ........

Still Farming · Sep 18, 2021

They witched it by putting John Selwyn Gummer thread up ??

hoff135 · Sep 18, 2021

serf said:
Beef price must be to high again ....
Wait for bbc to wheel out holstein cow falling over in the yard again !

Then wheel out Hugh Pennington

jondear · Sep 18, 2021

hoff135 said:
Then wheel out Hugh Pennington

He must be dead by now!

hoff135 · Sep 18, 2021

jondear said:
He must be dead by now!

He still going. 83

Formatted · Sep 18, 2021

Press Release

Single case of classical BSE confirmed on a farm in Somerset

The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is investigating the source of the incident.

www.gov.uk

Important to remember that Prions can be created by folding proteins at any time, that occasionally finding BSE in a cow doesn't mean anything untoward is happening and that we have robust legislation and surveillance which is why we find these cases.

Formatted · Aug 25, 2022

Think we all received the APHA email today asking about whether we are still using old silos, it has the report attached to it which explains where the original case came from.

This case was potentially linked to residual contaminated feed from a silo that had been in use since the early 1980s and was the most likely source of infection. This survey therefore hopes to establish whether you still use a silo, or any other container storing loose concentrated feedstuffs, that predates 1 August 1996 when the reinforced ban on feeding of processed animal protein to farmed animals was introduced.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1041282/Report_on_the_epidemiological_investigation_of_a_single_BSE_case_in_Somerset.pdf

Another quote in the conclusion

Feed contaminated with old MBM from the 1980s seems to be the most likely route of exposure. MBM produced in the 1980s was highly infectious to cattle and available evidence suggests that infectivity is unlikely to be reduced by much over forty years due to the stability of the BSE agent. Calculations here show that even after 40 years, the residual BSE infectivity in MBM produced from the rendering of the brain or spinal cord (750 g) of just one BSE-infected cow with clinical signs from back in the 1980s could infect 2.2 cows if consumed in 2020 by a herd of cows.

Just goes to show why want to know how many old silos are kicking about

Princess Pooper · Aug 25, 2022

Very interesting and detailed report.

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