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JANUARY 1,
USDA
from page 1
authorities expect to locate most of months before BSE-related roles were
those cows as early as this week, once implemented in North America.
they've sorted out numerous identifi- Following BSE outbreaks in Europe,
cation and records systems. US and Canadian officials in August
Officials said they have located sev- 1997 banned any cattle feed that con-
eral members of the lost herd at the rained cow tissue, to cut off the source
Sunny Dene Ranch. of infection. Such feed is thought to be
As for the other cows, uncertainty the way mad cow disease spreads.
was rule of the day, said Mike Besides tracing theindexanimal's
Louisell, public information officer herd and implementing new slaugh-
for the Washington state ter rules, the USDA has recalled
Department of Agriculture. "We lO,OOO pounds of meat processed by
don't know if there are any connec- the slaughterhouse that handled the
tions to Klickitat County or not. But infected animal. (None of that beef
that's part of the investigation." is known to have come to Klickitat
County.)
I~TmAqnON LENDS TO Caa~aa~A, The USDA has placed a hold on ani-
WESTERN STATES mals at the Sunny Dene dairy. The
Authorities believe that the infected index animal had two surviving calves;
cow -- known as the "index animal" -- one remains at the dairy, the other was
was born in April 1997, just a few shipped to a farm in Sunnyside. That
farm's 400 bull calves are also under a
hold order, officials said.
Those quarantined herds may face
euthanasia, but no order to kill them
had been issued as of press time.
In pursuing all of these measures,
USDA officials repeated that their BSE
surveillance procedures are sound,
even if their rules don't mesh precisely
with those implemented in Europe.
"We felt good about the system we
had in place .... We're taking these
measures out of an abundance of
caution," said DeHaven.
Said Secretary Veneman, "Our
food supply and the public health
remain safe."
She noted that not all "downer"
cattle - those unable to stand on
their own at a slaughterhouse -- suf-
fer from disease or serious ailments.
Downer cattle comprise about one- ply testing really is. "We have
half of one percent, or about staff very, very engaged at
15o,ooo animals, of the 35 nfillion level," Veneman said.
cows slaughtered each year in the Meanwhile, serious questio:
United States, she said. remain for the investigators:
Still, officials said that the USDA did the BSE cow get the disease
and the Food and Drug the first place -- and are there
Administration were re-examining infected cattle in Northwest
how rigorous the nation's food sup- and ranches?
The US Department of susceptible tissue into the
Agriculture's newly announced cat- food chain.
tle rules include: • A ban on air-injection
• Effective immediately, no of slaughter cattle, to prevent
slaughter of "downer" cattle for possibility of infectious brain
human consumption, being scattered.
° No meat from cattle tested for • Prohibition of meet
BSE in the human food chain until separated meat from human
the test results are known, sumpfion.
• Codification of USDA rules • Study of national
against sending certain mad-cow- cation standards.
REACTION
from page 1
Asia and elsewhere, both for managing the crisis and
"We are more self-sufficient," for the inspection regime that
said Centerville rancher and apparently kept mad cow at bay
Washington State Beeffor so long.
Commission board member Klickitat County public
Bruce Cameron. The Northwest health director Kevin Barry said
does rely on exports more than he was "so confident" in USDA's
other regions, but, said efforts to keep BSE out of the
Cameron, "We hope it will not US that he was actually shocked
hurt us as much." by the initial report of a dis-
This means that although eased cow.
overseas market bans on U.S. But there it was. In the event,
beef are likely to continue for Barry called the USDA's
some time ("There will be a response"very, very responsible
short-term hit," said Cameron), and effective." He said his office
the fate of the domestic industry would reiterate what the U.S.
swings not on foreign choices, Centers for Disease Control
but on Americans' willingness (CDC), the USDA, and
to continue eating beef. Washington Governor Gary
And that, of course, depends Locke have been telling people:
on consumers' confidence in the There is no threat to the food
meat's safety and fitness for supply, and the risk of humans
consumption, contracting BSE-related dis-
Locally, for the most part, eases (see sidebar) is extremely
meat vendors say shoppers con- low.
tinue to buy beef, and also to Barry said that neither the
stay wellinformed. USDA nor the state health
In the opinion of Ray DeHart, department had contacted his
co-owner of DeHart's Red office.
Apple Grocery, in a "beef indus- "From 30 years experience, if
try community" such as it gets to that point, the people
Goldendale, customers are not we're supposed to tell already
too concerned. 'Tney are more know. The food supply people
educated than average" about are amazingly good at getting
matters ofbeef supply and safe- the word out," said Barry.
ty. But, he added, there are ques-
Rick Kauffman, of Elwood's Lions coming from public health
Quality Meats, said they have practitioners. "There is some
had "tremendous sales" since discomfort with the complete
the crisis began. "We grind our asstmances that USDA and the
own chuck and round," he others are giving," he said. '~Fo
noted, which seems to matter to some of us, it seems that they
shoppers, are saying there is a zero chance
Rob Pedersen, of DeHart's of infection - but the whole
meat department, said he has truth is, it's not zero."
noticed a drop in beef sales. Researchers believe there is a
'That's usually the case," when connection between BSE and a
there is a product concern like related human malady,
this, he said. "Until it blows Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
over." which killed nearly lOO people
The U.S. Department of in Britain in the '9as. That was
Agriculture (USDA) received during the worst BSE outbreak
high marks from vendors, cat- on record, which affected up to
flemen, and a public health offi- 200,000 cows before herds
eial contacted by The Sentinel, were destroyed.
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Here, so far, the count is one According to Bruce Cameron,
cow. prices fell from about 93 cents a
Patti Brumbach, for one, will pound two weeks ago to 76 or
take the opinion of David 78 cents today - a loss of $75 to
Ropeik concerning the odds of $200 per head.
human harm. Brumbach is Webb hoped to handle more
executive director of the cow shipments to Korea, as her
Washington Beef Commission. company had done for the first
She cited Ropeik, of the time this summer, and possibly
Harvard Center for Risk to China. "Now it's all on hold.
Analysis, who called the risk "as Everything is in a wait-and-see
close to zero as scientists ever pattern," she said.
dare say." Cameron said local cattlemen
Still, for now, cattle prices will know more about their fate
have dropped drastically, in a week or ten days, once DNA
"We went from the highest testing on the Mabton cow is
cattle prices ever seen here to no complete.
bids, in a single afternoon," said Meanwhile, nobody would
Jana Webb of Auction Sales in speculate about the potential
The Dalles. impact on family ranches. Said
Lee, if prices drop mud1 below
the cmTent level and stay there,
"there's going to be some loss."
But if prices stabilize, she
thought most people should be
okay.
According to Brumbach,
"Early indications are that
consumers will continue to
buy beef. Retailers say buyers
are not staying away." During
Canada's crisis, consumption
there even increased, accord-
ing to the Canadian
Cattlemen's Web site.
Much depends on
tion. In Lee's opinion,
on TV about "downer"
(those that cannot walk) need
be accompanied by
explanation, because
can result from a variety
causes, including something
simple as a broken leg, or
"calving, she said.
"I hope the market
itself," said Webb. "It~l
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