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Australia reverses BSE import ban decision

Australia's Agriculture Minister Tony Burke has reversed a decision to accept international standards and end its nine-year import ban on bovine spongiform encephalopathy beef imports. The reversal of the decision will close the borders for another two years, leaving New Zealand as the only country able to export beef to Australia until Biosecurity Australia completes an import risk analysis on fresh beef from other countries.

On Oct. 20, 2009, the Australian Government announced a change in Australia's BSE food safety policy for imported beef and beef products, which set new requirements for countries that wished to export beef and beef products to Australia. The new policy went into effect on March 1.

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Reader Comments flounder — 04/29/2010 09:04:01 Wednesday, April 28, 2010 BSE, Scrapie, CWD, REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE OIE TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL HEALTH STANDARDS COMMISSION Paris, 8-12 February 2010 Reader Comments flounder — 04/27/2010 02:04:18 A Kind and Warm Greetings from Bacliff, Texas USA. I wish to supply the following data on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, and the risk there from, here in the USA and all of North America. The BSE MRR (Minimal Risk Region) policy is a failed, flawed policy, and it is responsible for Trading all strains of TSE globally in animal and man. I urge you to read the following data and repent and repeal the BSE MRR policy and go back to the BSE GBR risk assessments, and enhance that to include all strains of TSE (typical and atypical). THE USDA and the OIE put the cart before the horse so to speak when they decided to exempt the atypical Nor-98 scrapie from any trading regulatory policy. they sold their soul to the devil when they did. and they are trying to do it with the atypical BSE strains, when we know that ; non-human primates are specifically susceptible for atypical BSE as demonstrated by an approximately 50% shortened incubation time for L-type BSE as compared to C-type. and we also know that the typical c-BSE, the l-BSE and the h-BSE have all been documented in North America, and we know that Canada and the USA have been trading bovine and bovine products and feed like too lovers swap spit. the USA BSE feed ban is still failing, and has been nothing but ink on paper. sporadic CJD is rising in the USA, with unknown phenotypes of CJD strains in the USA mounting. of which some CJD cases of long duration and different symptoms, and very young. I hope you find this information useful. I am no Doctor, I am no Scientist, I simply lost my Mother to the Heidenhain Variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease some 12+ years ago, and have been seeking answers ever since. The answers I have come up with, do not correspond to what the USDA and the FDA et al have been saying. please use this information as you wish. ... Thank You, With Kindest Regards, I am sincerely, Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas USA 77518 Sunday, April 4, 2010 Add Your Comment To post a comment on this story, enter your screen name and email address then click "Add Comment." Your email address will not be displayed. 253 Recommend | 2 Comments

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