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Article: FDA proposal aims to protect animals, humans from diseases.(proposed rule banning ruminant and mink tissue from ruminant feeds; to counter bovine spongiform encephalopathy)(Updates)(Brief Article)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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To help protect animals from transmissible, fatal degenerative nerve diseases and to minimize the risk of the diseases being transmitted to humans, FDA has proposed banning tissue from cows, sheep, goats, and other ruminant animals in ruminant feeds. Mink tissue would also be prohibited in such feeds.
These animal diseases are known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are characterized by a long incubation period and a relatively short clinical course of neurological signs, leading to death. A major concern is that one type of animal TSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), could in the future be identified as the cause of a new TSE ...