US Violates Global Standards on Preventing Mad Cow Disease

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U.S. Violates World Health Organization Guidelines for Mad Cow Disease:A Comparison of North American and European Safeguards

by Michael Greger, M.D. for the Organic Consumers Association<http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow.htm>June 4, 2003

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association describes government andindustry efforts to safeguard the American public from mad cowdisease as "swift,decisive" and "aggressive."[1] The US Secretaryof Agriculture adds "diligent,"[2] "vigilant" and "strong."[3] Theworld's authority on these diseases disagrees.

Dr. Stanley Prusiner is the scientist who won the Nobel Prize inMedicine for his discovery of prions, the infectious agents thoughtto cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.The word Dr. Prusiner uses to describe the efforts of the U.S.government and the cattle industry is "terrible."[4] What are these"stringent protective measures"[5] that the Cattlemen's Associationis talking about, and how do they compare to global standards andinternationally recognized guidelines?

In 1996, in response to the revelation that young people in Britainwere dying from variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD), the humanequivalent of mad cow disease, the World Health Organization (WHO)issued seven "Recommendations." Numbers 5-7 were observations and/orrecommendations for further research. The first four recommendations,however, were concrete proscriptions to reduce the likelihood of madcow disease spreading to human populations.[6] To this day, theUnited States government continues to violate each and every one ofthese four guidelines.

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