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Is there a danger of milk and/or colostrum products from the United States being contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (Johnes, Disease)?

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Is there a danger of milk and/or colostrum products from the United States being contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (Johnes, Disease)?

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There has been concern over BSE spreading to the United States and the possibility humans contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease from the consumption of contaminated beef products. Recent literature points to the fact that the infection of cattle with this disease occurred from feeding cattle scrapie-containing sheep meat-and-bone meal in the form of contaminated processed feed. “Because the use of ruminant tissue in feed was probably a necessary factor responsible for the BSE outbreak in the United Kingdom, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration instituted a ruminant feed ban in June 1997 that became fully effective as of October 1997.” http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/bse_cjd_qa.htm “From 1986 through August 2000, >99% of the cases of BSE reported were from the United Kingdom, but endemic cases of BSE were also reported in other European countries, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, and Switzerl

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