U.S. Pets at risk for Mad Cow Disease
Posted by Susan Thixton at Mar 26th, 2008 in Cats
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The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis looked at the risk to U.S. citizens of mad cow disease in 2001 and again in 2003. The Harvard report determined the risk to be very low to humans. The study felt that as long as the FDA and USDA continued with current restrictions to processing ‘at risk’ meat materials into human food, and with current restrictions to processing ‘at risk’ animal material into animal feed of ruminants (cattle, sheep, pigs), the risk to humans would remain low. Unfortunately, it is a different story for our pets. Current regulations allow ‘at risk’ materials to be processed into pet food and it is a very common practice.
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