Re: Question on Armour / Mad Cow concerns

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Becky..

I posted this a few weeks ago... I'll post it again because it is a

concern for many.....

The article follows my comments.. skip down to the ******* to go straight

to it.

Cutting to the chase..In all the body parts listed as being Risk

Materials... no where does it list any of the glands.

I am taking Porcine Thyroid and Bovine Adrenal.. I have no concerns with

what I've been reading so far.

To bring up a consideration. If they started feeding people with things

that would transmit a disease back to the cattle.. that would be a major

economic concern.. I tend to doubt that they'd risk that.... On the other

hand if it were a disease that would be communicable to people and not

back to livestock, then I would be concerned.

Some may chuckle with that remark. But I'm serious. What gets the

greatest concern and interest? Things that impact a percentage of the

economy... The Beef Industry is big bucks in this country (USA) and after

what happened overseas and now the fears in Canada with Mad Cow... I

REALLY think that they'd take every measure to keep the cattle here

disease free.... If the disease were communicable through dried gland

tissues... They have pulled it off the market long before now.

Just my thoughts.....

Topper ()

http://toppertwo.tripod.com

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On July 24, 2003 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency enacted

regulatory provisions for the removal of Specified Risk materials

(SRM) from Cattle carcasses in establishments inspected under the

Meat Inspection Regulations,1990.

SRM means the skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils,

spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia of cattle aged 30 months or

older and the distal ileum of cattle of all ages. These tissues are

designated as SRM because in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE

aka Mad Cow) cattle. The brain, trigrminal gangia, eyes, tonsils,

spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia contain the BSE agent and may

transmit the disease. The skull is designated as well because of the

high probability of it becoming contaminated at the time of stunning

and during manipulation of the other tissues if their separate

removal was permitted.

In order to prevent certain tissues that may contain BSE infectivity

from entering the human food chain, operators of establishments will

be required to remove SRM's from the carcass and treat these

material as inedible meat products.

For the purpose of this policy, cattle are considered to be age 30

months or older when they have more than 2 of their permanent

incisor teeth erupted (ie the 1st pair of permanent incisors and at

least one tooth from the second pair of incisors)

brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, tonsils are removed from the skull

and the spinal cord requires removal in its entirety. In order to

ensure complete removal of the dorsal root ganglia, the vertebral

column of cattle aged 30 months or older, excluding the vertebrae of

the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar

vertebrae and the wings of the sacrum must be removed and disposed

of as an inedible product.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is working with Saskatchewan

Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization and Saskatchewan Health

to ensure the introduction of these provisions and the comprehensive

application of the removal of Specified Rick Material in all cattle

slaughtered in Saskatchewan.

Greg DVM

Inspection manager, Saskatchewan South

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 15:19:19 -0000 " Becky " writes:

> When I mentioned to my primary that I was going to another doctor to

>

> try the holistic approach, he immediately said that he didn't want

> her to put me on the med that is derived from pig hormone (which I

> see is Armour). He told me that it could run into a problem where

> there might be symptoms similar to mad cow resulting from the lack

> of

> testing of the pigs. Does anyone share an opinion on it? This

> doctor knows that I do want to take a more natural approach to the

> problems I have, it's just this was his only objection.