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Search results for "Mad-cow disease" ...
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Danger on Your Plate
The Center for Investigative Reporting hired the food analysis lab of the Sarajevo Veterinary School to test food samples purchased in farmers' markets, food shops and stalls to determine food safety. Center reporters found problems with contamination, government inspection, labeling, waste, and NGO's that collect money but "really do little to guard consumers against bad food."
Tags: food safety; Mad Cow Disease; CIN; Linking Agricultural Markets to Producers; LAMP; E.coli; proteus; alfotoxins; bacteria; fungi; food handling; TRACES animal tracking; smuggling; World Health Organization; Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations; EU
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Safety Gaps/ Inspection Oversight
The investigation finds gaping holes in the U.S. government's system to detect and stop the spread of Mad Cow disease here. Hundreds of suspicious animals were never tested for the disease. The government bungled the testing of the first U.S. born case of Mad Cow which was announced in June 2005. Restrictions were placed on feed to prevent the spread of this disease yet there have been no checks to ensure that these restrictions are being followed.
Tags: Disease; Center for Disease Control; Mad Cow Disease; bovine illnesses; U.S. government; FOIA
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Mad Cow Disease in the United States
Mitchell's investigation revealed several flaws in a few of the U.S. agencies meant to prevent and contain illnesses such as mad cow and Creutzfeld Jakob diseases. This series looks at the problems and inconsistencies within these programs and was also cited in the Inspector General's audit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's mad cow surveillance program. The investigation also looks into possible cases of mad cow disease in the United States which have gone undetected or may have been kept under wraps.
Tags: Mad Cow Disease; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Slaughterhouse ride
A WISH-TV undercover investigation reports on how horses are auctioned and slaughtered in Indiana. The horse meat is then sold in Europe at a good price, which has been skyrocketing after the mad cow, and the hoof and mouth diseases ravaged the beef industry. The majority of the horses sold to kill buyers are still ridable and in good shape but go to slaughterhouses "because the money 's right," WISH-TV reports. Another major finding is that many of the animals are "full of drugs that clearly state on the label "not intended for human consumption." A hidden-camera segment reveals that when the horses are loaded into double-deck trailers, and forced to kneel in pain for days before they get to the place to be butchered. The reporters examine the laws that forbid kill auctions in other states, and look at the possible legislative developments in Indiana.
Tags: animal lovers; horse races; racing horses; undercover videos; Humane Farming Association; legislation; Indiana Horse Rescue; Indiana Horse Council
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Mad Cow Autopsies
KY3 reports on the reluctance of Missouri hospitals to perform an autopsy of the corpse of Delmer Middleton, a resident of Lawrence county, MO, who died of Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Although Middletown family suspected this was a case of mad cow disease in its human version, known as the new variant of CJD, doctors refused to examine the body because it would have been too dangerous for themselves. As mutated proteins typical for the mad cow disease cannot be destroyed by conventional sterilization, an autopsy would mean destroying some hospital equipment as well. The investigative team points out that the findings "raise serious questions about the effectiveness of mad cow disease surveillance in America."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; public health; hospital; doctors; pathology; mad cow; England
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Cannibals to Cows: The Path of a Deadly Disease
In this thorough Newsweek report, Cowley discusses the origins of mad-cow disease. "Health officials say they've got mad cow under control. But millions of unaware people may be infected. Why it could still turn into an epidemic. " Informational sidebars on health risks are included.
Tags: Mad-cow disease; foot-and-mouth disease; epidemic; health; beef; bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
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A Wonder Drug that Carried the Seeds of Death
A Los Angeles Times investigation of the human growth hormone reveals that some early samples of the drug were contaminated. The contaminated samples infected patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a "deadly human analog of 'mad cow disease.'" A small percentage of the patients who took the then-classified experimental drug in 1960s began dying the 1980s. Twenty-two Americans have died from taking the contaminated sample, however their families have not received restitution because they knowingly took an experimental drug. However, British and other European courts have ruled that this disaster could have been avoided. British medics discovered the contaminated samples in 1976, nine years before the first patients began to die in 1985.
Tags: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; human growth hormone; Americans; British; Europe; disease; contaminated samples; death
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No title (id: 13484)
PR Watch looks at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the multi-billion dollar animal livestock industry in their cooperation in a PR cover-up of Mad Cow Disease. Although reports of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) disease showed up in dairy herds in the United States as early as 1985, the public never became fully aware of diseased cows or their links to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) until 1996.
Tags: It's a mad; mad; mad; mad cow world Livestock Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) FOIA 7 pgs.
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No title (id: 13419)
E Magazine investigates fears of a Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease epidemic in the United States. Five years ago, in an attempt to stop the spread of BSE and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the British government banned the feeding of cow and other animal parts to British cattle herds. In the United States, however, in order to produce stronger, larger cattle, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed the continuation of "cow cannibalism", leading some scientists fear for the health of U.S. cattle herds and U.S. meat consumers. (July/August 1996)
Tags: Mulvaney Mad Cows and the Colonies Health Livestock FDA 6 pgs.
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No title (id: 13370)
Last March, British Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell appeared on British television to report the appearance of a new type of rare and fatal brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The disease is believed to be caused by eating beef from cattle infected with "mad cow disease". Health magazine looks at how CJD destroys the human brain and how diseased beef entered the human food chain. (July/August 1996)
Tags: Mason Mad Cow Mystery Narrative BSE Nervous system 6 pgs.