BSE Beef Goes Into Food Chain

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BSE Beef goes into food chain in 2011, the public have been notified in 2012 look at this:

www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2012/sep/bse

www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2012/mar/jarrettcow

Scaremongering.
The article says that ONE animal went to slaughter without the safety procedures verifying it was BSE clear.
Not that it's known it had BSE, or was even likely to have had it.
It's about a procedural lapse rather than a known introduction of BSE to food chain.

We've had tonnes of that already. :(

NO, it says that meat which hadn't had the BSE test had gone into the food chain, NOT that BSE infected meat had entered the food chain.
Get your bloody facts right before posting stuff like that!

Welcome back!

Do you ever post about anything else at all???

Actually, I find the September link concerning, as a cow well over OTM limit, which had to be put down for "welfare reasons", entered the food chain and the meat could not be traced. This was low risk for BSE, not no risk.

The others showed breaches of the regulations which, as handled well by the cutting plant, did not cause a breach.

It is reassuring the cutting plant discovered and reported the breaches. Those who say this is a non-story, can you confirm that the sending abbattoir was not sending carcasses to other cutters at the times its controls/standards had failings.

I am very glad of the regulations on beef production, think they do need to be upheld stringently, and agree that publication of breaches is a part of that regime.

The chances that a BSE infected beast had skipped being detected during it's life are very slim indeed.
All animals are monitored by farmers, vets, animal health during their life then by trained graders after death. The UK has the most stringent rules and tests for animal health in the world.

Please stop trying to scaremonger.

It's not one animal : it's that plus 98 sides, so a total of 50 animals.

The regulations are there for a reason. This should not have happened and it is worrying.

Contaminated fish from the Irish sea have been going into the food chain for 50 years even though they have been checked by officals, checking and testing means nothing in real terms.