광우병 - 사료금지규정
다음은 미국의 소 축산업계 전문지의 기사. 미국은 동물성 사료 금지 규정을 내놓고 있으나 캐나다에서 수입하는 소에 대한 규정은 캐나다 자체의 규정에 미치지 못한다는 것.
한편, 한국 정부가 강력한 요청을 한 바 있다는 말은 하지만, 그것이 노무현 정부였는지 이명박 정부인지는 이 기사에서 분명하지 않다.
4/24/2008 2:42:00 PM
R-CALF: FDA’s Politically Based Feed Ban Rule Circumvents Scientific Recommendations
Billings, Mont. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued a final rule (Feed Ban Rule) that bans certain cattle materials from animal feed, including pet food. FDA states that the Feed Ban Rule will further protect “animals and consumers against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)…and strengthens existing safeguards,” most notably by removing only the brains and spinal cords from cattle over 30 months (OTM) of age, which are among the tissues considered specified risk materials (SRMs).
“R-CALF USA asserts this rule is less stringent than what Canada implemented in July 2007, and that there are multiple holes in FDA’s rule that still allow potential and significant transmission routes of the BSE infective agent,” said R-CALF USA President/Region VI Director Max Thornsberry, a Missouri veterinarian who also chairs the group’s animal health committee.
For example, in , SRMs that are banned for use in animal feed, pet food and fertilizer are the same as those removed from cattle slaughtered for human consumption. >From OTM cattle the following SRMs are removed: the skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia (nerves attached to the brain) eyes, tonsils, spinals cord and as a matter of practice the vertebral column, and the dorsal root ganglia (nerves attached to the spinal cord. The distal ileum portion of the small intestine is removed from cattle of all ages.
For domestic OTM cattle, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines SRMs to be removed as the brain, skull, eyes, trigeminal ganglia, spinal cord, vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the transverse process of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum), as well as the dorsal root ganglia. The tonsils and distal ileum are removed from all cattle.
Unfortunately, regarding OTM cattle (even those imported from countries like , with significant BSE problems), FDA’s rule only requires two of the nine tissues identified as high-risk tissues – the brain and spinal cord – be removed from animal feed. Also, for cattle under 30 months of age, no SRMs are removed.
In addition, FDA does not prohibit the feeding of poultry litter to cattle – a practice that provides a known and direct route of transmission for BSE to cattle.
“FDA’s Feed Ban Rule is politically based, not science-based, because it does not even meet the minimal recommendations of the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) to remove all SRMs from animal feed and fertilizer,” Thornsberry pointed out. “Yet, FDA’s rule will significantly increase the costs to cattle producers for the disposal of deadstock, which is an unfavorable, though inevitable, consequence of raising live animals.”
Evidence that this rule is politically based and designed to facilitate more imports into the is the fact that the rule actually provides for an exception for imported cattle. Under Section 589.2001 (b)(1)(C) of FDA’s Feed Ban Rule, countries exporting cattle to the U.S. can have the SRMs from their cattle excluded from the prohibition against their use in animal feed.
“Presumably, this requirement is for countries like Mexico that have not conducted the extensive testing for BSE as was done in the U.S., and for countries that have not detected BSE in their herds,” said Thornsberry.
“According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the U.S. has not detected the type of BSE that caused the outbreaks of BSE in Europe and in Canada, yet FDA contemplates treating imported cattle more favorably than domestic cattle by allowing the above- mentioned exception for SRMs from imported cattle.”
is the only known source of typical BSE in North America .
“The two BSE cases of domestic origin both were from an atypical strain of the disease, but in my opinion, USDA avoided explaining that critical detail to the public in order to expedite trade with ,” Thornsberry commented. “The continues to allow live Canadian cattle of all ages to be commingled with the cattle herd.
“USDA’s own risk modeling shows that the will import numerous BSE-infected cattle from over the next 20 years, and because of this ongoing exposure to BSE, exporting countries like have demanded that the strengthen its feed ban to mitigate this increased risk,” he continued. “In essence, the cattle industry must now incur additional costs in order to mitigate the heightened risk of BSE associated with Canadian cattle imports.
농무성 자체의 위험관리 모델에 의하면, 미국은 향후 20년 동안 수없이 많은 광우병 소를 수입하게 될 것이며, 광우병에 대한 미국의 이러한 계속적인 노출 때문에 한국 같은 수출대상국들은 증가하는 위험을 완화하기 위해 사료 금지 조치를 강화하라고 요구한 바 있다. 요지는, 캐나다에서 수입하는 소로 인하여 증가된 광우병 위험을 완화하기 위해 미국의 소 축산업계가 돈을 더 써야만 한다는 것이다.
“It is unconscionable that the federal government would impose additional costs on producers in order to manage ’s BSE problem within our borders, while simultaneously carving out exceptions for imports from competing countries,” Thornsberry concluded.