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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD): Safeguards
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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD): Safeguards
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibits the use of most animal proteins in the manufacture of feeds given to cattle and other ruminants.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) leads a surveillance system for vCJD and performs random screening of cattle slaughtered in the United States that will be used for human consumption.
Promoting less aggressive ways to harvest meat from the carcasses of slaughtered cattle to avoid contamination with brain and spinal cord tissue is critical because cooking, even to a well-done temperature, does not affect/destroy the prions.
Make sure “downer” cattle are kept out of the food chain.
Cattle should be tracked from birth to slaughter to identify infected cows and destroy their meat.
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