ivar.hellesnes@dyrehelsetilsynet.no a écrit :
>
> Kort merknad om kugalskapen og tiltak.
> Inge Staldvik sa: Det enklaste og rette ville vore straks å innføra
> importforbod frå dei landa der det er påvist kugalskap
> Er enig med Staldvik mht importforbud. Det samme er (faktisk) Statens
> dyrehelsetilsyn som sendte brev til Landbruksdept om dette før sommeren der
> de sa at man straks burde innføre et slikt forbud. Og det samme er Nei til
> Eu som sendte ut en pressemelding med krav om dette tidligere i høst.
> Når det gjelder bruk av prioninfisert kjøttbeinmjøl: noen land nektet å
> innføre slikt mjøl alt i 1985, like etter at britene hadde innført den nye
> produksjonsmetoden som ga sterkt senka temperatur under prosessen. Og før
> det første tilfellet av BSE. Blant disse landene var Sverige og Norge. Det
> er derfor grunn til å tro at det ikke er innført (legalt, vel å merke)
> infisert kjøttbeinmjøl til Skandinavia. Dette er hovedgrunnen til at en
> EU-oppnevnt kommisjon (el.l.) kunne si at vi er blant dem som har mest grunn
> til å føle oss trygge.
Kanskje det, men ein må ikkje vera naiv, og tru at importforbod aleine
løyser problema.
sjå http://www.mad-cow.org/00/nov00_last_news.html
"BSE response: Finland, Germany, Denmark, ...
Mad cow disease improbable but not impossible in Finland
Mon, Nov 20, 2000 COMTEX Newswire
Finland may have imported BSE (mad cow disease) through British bonemeal
in the 1980s, according to the EU's science committee.
The committee has said that it could have been possible for infected
British bonemeal to be exported to Finland in the 1980s as the controls
were less strict then and the Finnish control system was deemed to have
been unclear up to 1988-89.
The 84 live animals that were brought from the UK to Finland have had
their descendants traced. According to the committee, mad cow disease
would have been able to spread rapidly prior to 1990 if it had been
introduced in the country.
Finland is currently classed as a country where it is improbable but not
impossible to find mad cow disease. Sweden and Austria (og Noreg, min
merkn.) are also classed in the same category, while the disease has
been found in all other EU countries. Foreign bonemeal in Finnish animal
feed was banned in 1990.
Finland to test some cattle for mad cow disease
Tue, Nov 21, 2000 COMTEX Newswire
Finnish Agriculture Minister Kalevi Hemila has said that Finland would
limit testing for mad cow disease (BSE) to some 3,000 cattle per year.
Hemila told Reuters that there had been no cases of BSE in Finland, so
for now animals at risk and about 3,000 cattle at random would be
tested. The minister said that the tests would cost about FIM1.5m per
year if Finland only tested 3,000 cattle, but costs would rise to
FIM180m if all 310,000 cattle aged over 30 months were tested.
EU ministers had previously agreed that from the beginning of next year,
all animals at risk from BSE and aged over 30 months would be tested.
Finnish hens and swine reportedly eat bonemeal, but there is no risk
that the animals will contract BSE, according to the ministry of
agriculture and forestry.
The Finnish institute of public health has reportedly calmed rumours
that BSE would be appearing in the country. According to Professor Pauli
Leinikki, a researcher at the institute, it is highly unlikely that
Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (CJD), which is the human form of BSE, would
remain undiscovered in Finland as the symptoms are so strong that anyone
affected would immediately be taken to hospital.
Hemila also finds it extremely unlikely that BSE would be discovered in
Finland, and says that there are very few cattle alive today that would
have received British bonemeal in their feed. It has been estimated
that, unrelated to BSE, five Finns are discovered to suffer from CJD
every year.[Finnish authorities seem naive in the extreme -- webmaster.]
Separately, it has been estimated that compulsory testing of cattle
would cost Sweden as much as SEK100m every year. The bonemeal that
spreads the disease was banned in the country 12 years ago, and so far
no cases of BSE have been discovered in Sweden. The bonemeal can still
legally be fed to animals other than cattle.
Bonemeal as a feed was banned in Sweden in 1987 for ethical and
aesthetic reasons, as Swedes wanted to see cows as vegetarians. Although
the risk for BSE in Sweden is small, the EU has determined that it
cannot be entirely excluded and Swedish abattoirs therefore have to
follow the same procedures as those of other EU countries."
"Danish animals are allegedly kept alive to avoid fee
Mon, Nov 20, 2000 COMTEX Newswire
Danish farmers reportedly keep sick and weak animals alive in order to
avoid a DKK500 fee for putting them down.
The fee was introduced at the same time as the supervisory programme for
mad cow disease earlier this year and the result has been that the
animals end up in abattoirs that refuse to accept them, according to the
Danish Radio's online news.
Veterinarians are often asked to make animals well enough to be sent for
slaughter, according to Helle Sloth, the head of Nordvestjysk
Dyrlaegeforening, a regional association for veterinarians.
Comment (Karin.Irgens): "Details about Denmark can be found in the SSC
final risk assessment for Denmark, july 2000. The amplification factor
is uncertain, but they waited until the end of 1997 before rendering
conditions became "satisfactory" (133/3bar) and Denmark was the only
country in Europe where they continued to feed ruminants with MBM from
pigs. Normally, all mammalian MBM was forbidden, and they had to ask the
EU for an exemption. They did ask, but they never got an answer from the
EU Commission."
http://www.mad-cow.org/00/jan00_news_mid.html
"Millions at risk from CJD, say EU scientists
The Guardian, Saturday January 8, 2000 James Meikle
New Scientist magazine, 22 Jan 00.
Millions of European consumers may be at risk of catching
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD), the fatal human version of BSE -
despite their governments' assertions that their countries are free of
the cattle disease, the European Union's most senior scientists warned
in a report yesterday.
Up to 400,000 people in some member states could be exposed to infected
material from a single cow if it were allowed to enter the food chain
because it had displayed no clinical signs of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE).
The EU's scientific steering committee believes that Austria, Denmark,
Finland, Germany, Greece and Sweden should introduce bans on the most
infective parts of cattle, including brain, spinal material and
intestines, while Italy and Spain should extend their measures to cover
beef from all countries, not only from those known to have BSE.
Only seven countries, including Britain and France, at present operate
such anti-BSE measures. In Britain all meat from cattle more than 30
months old is banned from being used in food. Even so, a handful of
infected animals not showing "mad cow" symptoms are still thought to
slip into food production.
The European commission has failed to introduce precautionary measures
throughout the EU because some countries claim they have no BSE or
that it has been evident only in imported cattle.
The new advice is likely to undermine European confidence in beef as the
legal wrangle between the commission and Paris over the safety of
British beef continues. But the committee, which cleared British beef
for export after a 40-month ban, is worried by cross-border trade in
live animals, organs, offal and processed foods. It says the risk of
exposure to BSE "is not necessarily linked" to geographic incidence of
the disease.
"Recent evidence suggests that in countries with a reported low
incidence, the actual rate of BSE-infected animals entering the food
chain is not nil," the report says. It says many people within the EU
are eating potentially dangerous material contained in common meat
products such as patés and sausages.
Tests to identify BSE in cattle carcasses in its early stages do not
offer reliable screening. But the removal of risky parts of animals
significantly reduces the potential for infecting humans. The scientists
conclude: "Failure to do this is likely to expose a large number of
consumers to an unnecessary risk."
Their bleak warnings give added significance to the reluctance of
British scientists to predict the eventual size of the CJD outbreak,
which has killed 48 people in Britain, two in France and one in Ireland
so far. Those victims are believed to have become infected before most
controls were introduced in 1989, though the first death did not occur
until 1995."
Oddmund Garvik
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