Missouri Nixon's Veto Stands Overide Fails on Agriculture Legislation
How they voted: attempt to override veto of ag bill fails in the
House
September 11, 2014 By Mike Lear
The attempt to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of agriculture
legislation narrowly failed in the state House, in the veto session that wrapped
up early Thursday morning.
Republican leadership in the House left the voting board open for more than
20 minutes while it looked for the 109 votes needed to secure the override. When
the tally hit 109 the direction was given to close the voting board, but one
lawmaker, Barnhart Democrat Jeff Roorda, switched from a “yay” to a “nay” at the
last moment, and the override attempt failed.
SEE HOW THEY VOTED HERE ;
http://cdn.missourinet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/How-they-voted-Ag-bill-veto-override-fails.jpg
To Representative Jeff Roorda and others, that made the veto stand...Thank
You!
”The occurrence of CWD must be viewed against the contest of the locations
in which it occurred. It was an incidental and unwelcome complication of the
respective wildlife research programmes. Despite it’s subsequent recognition as
a new disease of cervids, therefore justifying direct investigation, no specific
research funding was forthcoming. The USDA veiwed it as a wildlife problem and
consequently not their province!” ...page 26.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
USDA TO PGC ONCE CAPTIVES ESCAPE
*** "it‘s no longer its business.”
*** Infectious agent of sheep scrapie may persist in the environment for at
least 16 years
Gudmundur Georgsson1, Sigurdur Sigurdarson2 and Paul Brown3
New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent:
Threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of
replication
Prion Infected Meat-and-Bone Meal Is Still Infectious after Biodiesel
Production
Detection of protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a
CWD-endemic area
A Quantitative Assessment of the Amount of Prion Diverted to Category 1
Materials and Wastewater During Processing
Rapid assessment of bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion inactivation by
heat treatment in yellow grease produced in the industrial manufacturing process
of meat and bone meals
PPo4-4:
Survival and Limited Spread of TSE Infectivity after Burial
Monday, June 23, 2014
*** PRION 2014 CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD
Thursday, July 03, 2014
*** How Chronic Wasting Disease is affecting deer population and what’s the
risk to humans and pets?
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
*** CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE CWD TSE PRION DISEASE, GAME FARMS, AND
POTENTIAL RISK FACTORS THERE FROM
Sunday, August 24, 2014
*** USAHA 117TH ANNUAL MEETING USDA-APHIS–VS CWD Herd Certification Program
Goals TSE PRION October 17 – 23, 2013
Friday, December 14, 2012
DEFRA U.K. What is the risk of Chronic Wasting Disease CWD being introduced
into Great Britain? A Qualitative Risk Assessment October 2012
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In the USA, under the Food and Drug Administration’s BSE Feed Regulation
(21 CFR 589.2000) most material (exceptions include milk, tallow, and gelatin)
from deer and elk is prohibited for use in feed for ruminant animals. With
regards to feed for non-ruminant animals, under FDA law, CWD positive deer may
not be used for any animal feed or feed ingredients. For elk and deer considered
at high risk for CWD, the FDA recommends that these animals do not enter the
animal feed system. However, this recommendation is guidance and not a
requirement by law.
Animals considered at high risk for CWD include:
1) animals from areas declared to be endemic for CWD and/or to be CWD
eradication zones and
2) deer and elk that at some time during the 60-month period prior to
slaughter were in a captive herd that contained a CWD-positive animal.
Therefore, in the USA, materials from cervids other than CWD positive
animals may be used in animal feed and feed ingredients for non-ruminants.
The amount of animal PAP that is of deer and/or elk origin imported from
the USA to GB can not be determined, however, as it is not specified in TRACES.
It may constitute a small percentage of the 8412 kilos of non-fish origin
processed animal proteins that were imported from US into GB in 2011.
*** Overall, therefore, it is considered there is a __greater than
negligible risk___ that (nonruminant) animal feed and pet food containing deer
and/or elk protein is imported into GB.
There is uncertainty associated with this estimate given the lack of data
on the amount of deer and/or elk protein possibly being imported in these
products.
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36% in 2007 (Almberg et al., 2011). In such areas, population declines of
deer of up to 30 to 50% have been observed (Almberg et al., 2011). In areas of
Colorado, the prevalence can be as high as 30% (EFSA, 2011).
The clinical signs of CWD in affected adults are weight loss and
behavioural changes that can span weeks or months (Williams, 2005). In addition,
signs might include excessive salivation, behavioural alterations including a
fixed stare and changes in interaction with other animals in the herd, and an
altered stance (Williams, 2005). These signs are indistinguishable from cervids
experimentally infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
Given this, if CWD was to be introduced into countries with BSE such as GB,
for example, infected deer populations would need to be tested to differentiate
if they were infected with CWD or BSE to minimise the risk of BSE entering the
human food-chain via affected venison.
snip...
The rate of transmission of CWD has been reported to be as high as 30% and
can approach 100% among captive animals in endemic areas (Safar et al., 2008).
snip...
In summary, in endemic areas, there is a medium probability that the soil
and surrounding environment is contaminated with CWD prions and in a
bioavailable form. In rural areas where CWD has not been reported and deer are
present, there is a greater than negligible risk the soil is contaminated with
CWD prion.
snip...
In summary, given the volume of tourists, hunters and servicemen moving
between GB and North America, *** the probability of at least one person
travelling to/from a CWD affected area and, in doing so, contaminating their
clothing, footwear and/or equipment prior to arriving in GB is greater than
negligible. For deer hunters, specifically, the risk is likely to be greater
given the increased contact with deer and their environment. However, there is
significant uncertainty associated with these estimates.
snip...
Therefore, it is considered that farmed and park deer may have a higher
probability of exposure to CWD transferred to the environment than wild deer
given the restricted habitat range and higher frequency of contact with tourists
and returning GB residents.
snip...
Monday, July 07, 2014
Governor Nixon Hosting Press Conference to “Act” on Captive Deer
Legislation in Missouri
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Missouri Gov. Nixon vetoes two bills defining captive deer as livestock
Saturday, August 02, 2014
*** Structural effects of PrP polymorphisms on intra- and inter-species
prion transmission
In contrast, the scrapie prions used in the deer transmission studies of
Greenlee and colleagues were isolated from a sheep encoding A136, ***raising the
possibility that deer may be susceptible to multiple scrapie strains.
snip...
Significance
The unpredictable recurrences of prion epidemics, their incurable
lethality, and the capacity of animal prions to infect humans, provide
significant motivation to ascertain the parameters governing disease
transmission. The unprecedented spread, and uncertain zoonotic potential of
chronic wasting disease (CWD), a contagious epidemic among deer, elk, and other
cervids, is of particular concern. Here we demonstrate that naturally occurring
primary structural differences in cervid PrPs differentially impact the
efficiency of intra- and interspecies prion transmission. Our results not only
deliver new information about the role of primary structural variation on prion
susceptibility, but also provide functional support to a mechanism in which
plasticity of a tertiary structural epitope governs prion protein conversion and
intra- and inter-species susceptibility to prions.-
snip...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Missouri Comment time running out on deer farming regs (AUDIO)
Friday, September 05, 2014
CFIA CWD and Grain Screenings due to potential risk factor of spreading via
contamination of grain, oil seeds, etc.
*** The potential impact of prion diseases on human health was greatly
magnified by the recognition that interspecies transfer of BSE to humans by beef
ingestion resulted in vCJD. While changes in animal feed constituents and
slaughter practices appear to have curtailed vCJD, there is concern that CWD of
free-ranging deer and elk in the U.S. might also cross the species barrier.
Thus, consuming venison could be a source of human prion disease. Whether BSE
and CWD represent interspecies scrapie transfer or are newly arisen prion
diseases is unknown. Therefore, the possibility of transmission of prion disease
through other food animals cannot be ruled out. There is evidence that vCJD can
be transmitted through blood transfusion. There is likely a pool of unknown size
of asymptomatic individuals infected with vCJD, and there may be asymptomatic
individuals infected with the CWD equivalent. These circumstances represent a
potential threat to blood, blood products, and plasma supplies.
kind regards, terry
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