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Pet owners: Don't worry about mad cow
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/
Here's an excerpt: In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. |
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"Ray Ban" wrote in message
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. HAHA! Yes, and we all know how well food "eaten by humans" is inspected, don't we? Isn't how all this got started? |
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"Ray Ban" wrote in message
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. HAHA! Yes, and we all know how well food "eaten by humans" is inspected, don't we? Isn't how all this got started? |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/
Here's an excerpt: In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. Thanks for posting that. I read it, and maybe I'm just too cynical, but that information just sounds like propoganda to me. The article indicates that canned pet food is as strictly regulated, quality controlled and inspected as canned tuna. I don't believe that. There is a pet food cannery in the town where I live. If the standards that meet the eye there are comparable to canned tuna, I'll never buy another can of tuna. My other question with the article was, the quote from the FDA's Center of Vet. Medicine director, who said that meats declared unfit for human consumption may be used in pet food, as long as they are heat-treated, or rendered to destroy pathogens. So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with the normal canning process? Sounded pretty vague. Sherry |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/
Here's an excerpt: In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. Thanks for posting that. I read it, and maybe I'm just too cynical, but that information just sounds like propoganda to me. The article indicates that canned pet food is as strictly regulated, quality controlled and inspected as canned tuna. I don't believe that. There is a pet food cannery in the town where I live. If the standards that meet the eye there are comparable to canned tuna, I'll never buy another can of tuna. My other question with the article was, the quote from the FDA's Center of Vet. Medicine director, who said that meats declared unfit for human consumption may be used in pet food, as long as they are heat-treated, or rendered to destroy pathogens. So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with the normal canning process? Sounded pretty vague. Sherry |
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Sherry wrote in on 01
Jan 2004: So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with the normal canning process? Nope. -- Cheryl I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy. Come here Squishy. Ow. Bad Squishy. - Dori |
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Sherry wrote in on 01
Jan 2004: So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with the normal canning process? Nope. -- Cheryl I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy. Come here Squishy. Ow. Bad Squishy. - Dori |
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"Ray Ban" wrote in message om... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/ Here's an excerpt: In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. The odds are very small. But the quality inspections etc. have nothing to do with it. The brain from the downed cow ended up going to a company that makes animal food. If just about any mammal eats this it may well get the disease - it is a chemical process, not a traditional biological one. Also it takes many years to develop. What worries me more is not this particular cow, but that it was apparently caught just by chance. There may (or may not) be many others like it. Bill |
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"Ray Ban" wrote in message om... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/ Here's an excerpt: In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by humans. The odds are very small. But the quality inspections etc. have nothing to do with it. The brain from the downed cow ended up going to a company that makes animal food. If just about any mammal eats this it may well get the disease - it is a chemical process, not a traditional biological one. Also it takes many years to develop. What worries me more is not this particular cow, but that it was apparently caught just by chance. There may (or may not) be many others like it. Bill |
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