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Letter requests USDA make changes in BSE protection.

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Published: Mar 31, 2010

Several dozen ag organizations have requested that USDA immediately strengthen protections against Canada's ongoing problems with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The letter states that above all other considerations, the health and safety of the people of the United States and United States' livestock must come first; first before trade and first before international relations.

The letter charges that current USDA policy and regulations on BSE compromise directly this health and safety priority. They go on to urge immediate action to, at the very least, restore for the United States the protections against the introduction and spread of BSE that were in place before USDA began to systematically dismantle its BSE-related border restrictions.

"We are asking the Administration to immediately reverse this reckless and unscientific approach to the dangers of BSE by withdrawing the Over 30-Months rule," said R-Calf USA CEO Bill Bullard. "That basically eliminated the United States' only defense against the introduction of BSE into the United States - its import restrictions that prohibited the importation of cattle old enough to have been exposed to the disease."

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