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AGE ©SMALLTOWNPAPERS, INC. ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ~E SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 2 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. 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For our experience of mpathy, extraordinary considerations, and heart connections extended to Harvey and me from the Home Health Staff at Klickitat Valley Hospital, as well as the office, lab and nursing staff'at the Hospital and the Family Practice Clinic who weekly shared their love and concern, Thank you! Harvey had so many Angels and Arch Angels in our community bringing hope, assistance and encouragements ( to his everyday care. Thank You! May God's ~t blessing be a beacon for every hour t~,l , of your lives. Stop by and I will share "J The Present with you. - Lorraine Abbott / and Family ~o)~ 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. 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