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Canada Denies Adulterated
Feed Poses BSE Risk |
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| by
Pete Hisey on
12/20/04 for Meatingplace.com |
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Brian Evans, Canada's chief veterinarian, told reporters
that despite animal parts being found in over half of feed
samples in his country marketed as vegetable-only (See Canadian
cattle feed found to have animal content, Meatingplace.com,
Dec. 17, 2004.), the risk of the feed causing bovine spongiform
encephalopathy is extremely low.
"People are making the assumption here that this somehow
constitutes or represents a risk from the BSE perspective,"
he said. "I don't believe this is what this information
is telling us at all."
Evans noted that the feed was not necessarily adulterated
by bovine material and was not necessarily meant to be consumed
by cattle.
Some Canadian newspapers have openly questioned why the
samples, which were collected early this year, were not
subjected to DNA testing, which would have revealed what
species the animal byproducts came from. Authorities replied
that the decision was made because those tests are not necessarily
accurate.
A bill meant to keep all specified risk materials (SRMs)
like bovine spinal material, eyeballs, and tonsils out of
all animal feed to prevent cross-contamination has stalled
in Canada, as a similar one in the United States has stalled
in Congress.
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