BSE found on farm

DENNING

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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.
 

Ceri

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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. ........ 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
 

Formatted

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Press Release


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.
 

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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.


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
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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