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greetings, May 2007 Update on Feed Enforcement Activities to Limit the Spread of BSE To help prevent the establishment and amplification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) through feed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented a final rule that prohibits the use of most mammalian protein in feeds for ruminant animals. This rule, Title 21 Part 589.2000 of the Code of Federal Regulations, here called the Ruminant Feed Ban, became effective on August 4, 1997. The following is an update on FDA enforcement activities regarding the ruminant feed ban. FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has assembled data from the inspections that have been conducted AND whose final inspection report has been recorded in the FDA's inspection database as of May 12, 2007. As of May 12, 2007, FDA had received over 53,000 inspection reports. The majority of these inspections (around 68%) were conducted by State feed safety officials, with the remainder conducted by FDA officials. An OAI inspection classification occurs when significant objectionable conditions or practices were found and regulatory sanctions are warranted in order to address the establishment's lack of compliance with the regulation. An example of an OAI inspection classification would be findings of manufacturing procedures insufficient to ensure that ruminant feed is not contaminated with prohibited material. Inspections classified with OAI violations will be promptly re-inspected following the regulatory sanctions to determine whether adequate corrective actions have been implemented. A VAI inspection classification occurs when objectionable conditions or practices were found that do not meet the threshold of regulatory significance, but do warrant advisory actions to inform the establishment of findings that should be voluntarily corrected. Inspections classified with VAI violations are more technical violations of the Ruminant Feed Ban. These include provisions such as minor recordkeeping lapses and conditions involving non-ruminant feeds. An NAI inspection classification occurs when no objectionable conditions or practices were found during the inspection or the significance of the documented objectionable conditions found does not justify further actions. The results to date are reported here both by “segment of industry” and “in total”. NOTE – A single firm can operate as more than one firm type. As a result, the categories of the different industry segments are not mutually exclusive. RENDERERS These firms are the first to handle and process (i.e., render) animal proteins and to send these processed materials to feed mills and/or protein blenders for use as a feed ingredient. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 269 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 161 (60 % of those active firms inspected) Of the 161 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 0 firms (0.0 %) were classified as OAI 4 firms (2.5 %) were classified as VAI LICENSED FEED MILLS FDA licenses these feed mills to produce medicated feed products. The license is required to manufacture and distribute feed using certain potent drug products, usually those requiring some pre-slaughter withdrawal time. This licensing has nothing to do with handling prohibited materials under the feed ban regulation. A medicated feed license from FDA is not required to handle materials prohibited under the Ruminant Feed Ban. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 1,074 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 444 (41 % of those active firms inspected) Of the 444 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 0 firms (0.0 %) were classified as OAI 5 firms (1.1 %) were classified as VAI FEED MILLS NOT LICENSED BY FDA These feed mills are not licensed by the FDA to produce medicated feeds. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 5,183 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 2,391 (46 % of those active firms inspected) Of the 2,391 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 3 firms (0.1 %) were classified as OAI 56 firms (2.3 %) were classified as VAI PROTEIN BLENDERS These firms blend rendered animal protein for the purpose of producing quality feed ingredients that will be used by feed mills. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 386 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 183 (47% of those active firms inspected) Of the 183 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 1 firm (0.5 %) was classified as OAI 7 firms (3.8 %) were classified as VAI RENDERERS, FEED MILLS, AND PROTEIN BLENDERS MANUFACTURING WITH PROHIBITED MATERIAL This category includes only those firms that actually use prohibited material to manufacture, process, or blend animal feed or feed ingredients. Total number of active renderers, feed mills, and protein blenders whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 6,604 Number of active renderers, feed mills, and protein blenders processing with prohibited materials – 497 (7.5 %) Of the 497 active renderers, feed mills, and protein blenders processing with prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 2 firms (0.4 %) were classified as OAI 24 firms (4.8 %) were classified as VAI OTHER FIRMS INSPECTED Examples of such firms include ruminant feeders, on-farm mixers, pet food manufacturers, animal feed salvagers, distributors, retailers, and animal feed transporters. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 17,227 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 5,415 (31% of those active firms inspected) Of the 5,415 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 2 firms (0.04 %) were classified as OAI 186 firms (3.4%) were classified as VAI TOTAL FIRMS Note that a single firm can be reported under more than one firm category; therefore, the summation of the individual OAI/VAI firm categories will be more than the actual total number of OAI/VAI firms, as presented below. Number of active firms whose initial inspection has been reported to FDA – 19,705 Number of active firms handling materials prohibited from use in ruminant feed – 6,146 (31 % of those active firms inspected) Of the 6,146 active firms handling prohibited materials, their most recent inspection revealed that: 3 firms (0.05 %) were classified as OAI 200 firms (3.3 %) were classified as VAI Issued by: ___________________________________ END OF ENFORCEMENT REPORT FOR MARCH 21, 2007 > May 2007 Update on Feed Enforcement Activities to Limit the Spread of BSE 18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7 64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform http://www.seac.gov.uk/minutes/95.pdf Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western Reserve Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain ***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest that BASE is more virulent than There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively TSS
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