BSE - Related Information

Brochures, Pamphlets, Videos and Other Information
1. "Feed Transporters - Your Role in Preventing BSE" (located in full on the Nebraska Department of Agriculture website)
2. "Feed Manufacturers - Your Role in Preventing BSE" (located in full on the Nebraska Department of Agriculture website)
3. "Producers - Your Role in Preventing BSE" (located in full on the Nebraska Department of Agriculture website)
4. "Confused over Mad Cow and 'Foot & Mouth" Disease?
5. "Reduce the Threat of BSE" - (PDF format, print landscape format, on legal size paper)
Correspondence regarding BSE
1. From AAFCO President Ben Jones to Dr. Lester Crawford, Deputy Commissioner of FD [01/04]
2. From AAFCO President Ben Jones to AAFCO Members regarding discovery of postiive BSE cow
3. From AAFCO President Ben Jones to NASDA on the proposed change to 21 CFR 589.2000 [11/03]
4. From AAFCO President Ali Kashani to FDA regarding potential changes to the existing rule re: BSE [01/03]
5. From AAFCO President John Breitsman to NASDA Members BSE AAFCO's Policies [01/02]
6. From AAFCO President John Breitsman to AAFCO Members regarding salvaged/distressed pet foods [01/02]
7. From AFIA/NGFA/NRA & PFI to AAFCO President John Breitsman re: BSE
8. From AAFCO President John Breitsman to FDA re: Docket #01N-0423 [11/01]
General Information
1. FDA Response regarding specified risk materials (SRM) being rendered and utilized in animal feeds, including pet foods
2. Policy Statement - AAFCO's stand on BSE
3. FDA's Position on BSE and the safety of Pet Foods (FDA Website)
Posters & Presentations from the 2003 FDA/AAFCO BSE Workshop
1. Detection of Meat and Bone Meal using Near Infrared Microscopy and IR Camera
  by: A. Michotte Renier, V. Baeten, I. Fissaux and P. Dardenne
2. Strategies and Methods to Detect and Quantify Mammalian Tissues in Feedingstuffs
  by: P. Dardenne
3. Meat and Bone Meal Detection in Feed by Real Time PCR with Specific Hybridization Probes
  by: M. DuBois, O. Fumiere, C. von Holst, G. Brambilla and G. Berben
4. Speciation of Feeds and Meat & Bone Meals by Immunoassay
  by: B. Ritter
5. General Information on Method Validation
  by: C. von Holst
6. Cholesterol: A Marker for the Presence of Animal Material in Feed
  by: C. Silva
7. Detection of Animal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed
  by: D. Overend
8. Determination of Animal Species by PCR in Feed
  by: L. Reimann and D. Pinero
9. A Brief Overview of Currently-Used Tests for Detection of Prohibited Animal Proteins in Feeds and Factors Important to their Development
  by: D. Momcilovic
10. Detection of Ruminant MBM Prohibited protein
  by: F. Klein
11. Assay Development for Detection of MBM Residues in Animal Feed
  by: H. An, C. Wei, T. Huang, S. Kim, S. Kempf, C. Bridgman and T. Seymour
12. Rapid Methods for Determining Compliance to Feed Regulations: Targets, Strategies and Methods
  by: J. Stave, M. Muldoon, M. Brown and D. Onisk
13. Feed Analysis and Sampling
  by: L. D'Hoostelaere
14. Feed Microscopy: A Regulatory Perspective
  by: M. Bucker
15. Novel Approaches & Probes for PCR Detection of Animal-Derived Materials
  by: M. Myers
16. Immunochemical Detection of Prohibited Proteins
  by: M. Myers
17. The British Experience
  by: M. Ansfield
18. Detection of Rendered Materials in Meat-and-Bone and Fish Meals
  by: M. Ansfield
19. Reference Materials for Stockfeed
  by: Z. G. Guo, P. Armishaw, R. Millar, B. Murphy and K.R. Emslie
20. Use of Near-Infrared Microscopy (NIRM) and IR Camera to Detect and Quantify Meat and Bone Meal (MVM) in Compound Feeds
  by: V. Baeten, A. Michotte Renier, P. Vermeulen and P. Dardenne