米国で史上最大の牛肉製品リコール ダウナーカウと畜のBSE規制違反
米国で史上最大の牛肉製品リコール ダウナーカウと畜のBSE規制違反 08.2.18
http://www.juno.dti.ne.jp/~tkitaba/bse/news/08021801.htm
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米国・カリフォルニアの食肉パッカー・Hallmark/Westland社が米国史上最大、桁違いの牛肉製品大規模リコールを始めた。これら牛肉製品は狂牛病（BSE）感染もあり得る牛からの製品で、米農務省（USDA）の食品安全検査局（FSIS）が人間の消費には不適と決めたためという。
これらの牛肉製品は生前検査をパスした後に起立歩行が困難になった牛（いわゆるダウナーカウ）からのもので、工場はFSISの公衆衛生獣医に知らせ、牛のBSEの可能性を精査する手続きを怠っていた。
こうした違法行為は過去2年にわたって続いていたと見られ、FSISは、この間に生産された牛肉製品すべてを人間消費に不適とした。リコールの対象となる牛肉製品（生肉と冷凍肉）は1億4,338万3,823ポンド（約7.2万トン）にも上り、過去最大の97年・ハドソンフーズ社のO157汚染による約2,500 万ポンド（1.25万）トン牛ひき肉リコールとは桁違いだ。リストアップされたリコール製品のラベル名は69に上る。
ただし、リコール対象品は、すでにほとんど消費されてしまっているはずだ。うち17万トンは学校のランチやその他の連邦栄養改善プログラムのために買い入れられたという。
California Firm Recalls Beef Products,FSIA,08.2.17
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Recall_005-2008_Release.pdf
これは、同社が動物の非人間的扱いと畜を防止すFSIS規則と”人間的と畜方法法”に違反する行為を続けているという訴えを受けたFSIAの調査の過程で発覚した。FSISは2月4日、すでに同社の操業停止を命じているが、この動物福祉規制違反がBSE規制違反にまで発展したわけだ。
USDAは、これらの牛がBSEに感染している可能性はほとんんどないとか、このような違反は孤発的な例だなどと不安の沈静に躍起になっている。
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HALLMARK/WESTLAND MEAT PACKING CO,USDA,2.17 ＊
しかし、この孤発例だけでも大変なリスクだ。まして、同様な調査を実施しないかぎり、他の施設でもこんな違反がないとは立証できない。米国政府は、それでも米国牛肉は世界一安全と言い張り続けるのだろうか。
出来合いのビーフカレーを食べる人は自業自得としても、給食の牛肉がやばいのですよ。前からわかりきったことだが。
Cheap Meat Working in a Slaughterhouse
http://video.hsus.org/index.jsp?fr_story=38247e8c8ea570aca40146c9477f280b28113254
参照
スポンジ脳症攻撃との闘い
http://satehate.exblog.jp/7020480/
Beef Taken Off the Menu After Largest Beef Recall in US History
http://www.medindia.net/news/Beef-Taken-Off-the-Menu-After-Largest-Beef-Recall-in-US-History-33170-1.htm
Schools in Washington state and California took beef off the menu on Monday after a Californian meatpacker recalled the largest amount of beef in US history.
But agriculture officials played down the risk to humans after Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing agreed to take back more than 143 million pounds of raw and frozen meet when it was found in violation of inspection rules.
The company, based in Chino, California, voluntarily recalled the beef after the federal Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) determined the cattle "did not receive complete and proper inspection."
The company did not "consistently contact the FSIS public health veterinarian in situations in which cattle became non-ambulatory" before being slaughtered, the USDA statement said Sunday.
Federal rules usually ban the slaughter of "downer cattle" -- those unable to walk -- as a safeguard against mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
US Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer said Hallmark/Westland had been suspended by the FSIS, and that the federal government had suspended food and nutrition contracts with the company.
"I am dismayed by the inhumane handling of cattle that resulted in the violation of food safety regulations" by the company, Schafer said in a statement.
"It is extremely unlikely that these animals were at risk for BSE because of the multiple safeguards; however this action is necessary because plant procedures violated USDA regulations," he added.
The department did not say where those food products had been sold, but schools in Washington state and California removed beef from their lunch menus as a precaution, local officials said.
America's meat packing industry has already been plagued by outbreaks of E. coli bacteria and other problems.
In September, Topps Meats Co. of New Jersey recalled 21.7 million pounds of frozen hamburger patties after people in New York and Florida fell ill because of E. coli poisoning.
The New Jersey company later filed for bankruptcy because the recall involved a full year's worth of production.
The largest previous recall involved 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats in 1999.
James Reagan, Chairman of the Beef Industry Food Safety Council, backed Sunday's recall, describing it as "a precautionary measure," but sought to reassure consumers that the US beef supply is safe.
"We have multiple interlocking safeguards in place in every beef processing plant in America so that if one is bypassed, the other systems continue to ensure the product we serve our families remains safe," Reagan said.
But William Marler, a food safety attorney from Seattle, Washington, called for congressional hearings on the safety of the US beef supply, accusing the Department of Agriculture of failing to enforce its own ban against use of downer cattle in the nation's school lunch program.
"In light of the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company, which was caught on film processing 'downer' cattle, in violation of US law, we now know that USDA ban was a lie," Marler said.
Source-AFP
SRM/L
http://www.juno.dti.ne.jp/~tkitaba/bse/news/08021801.htm
農業情報研究所（WAPIC）
も転載メモしておきます。
日本ではなぜもっと騒がないのか？
米国・カリフォルニアの食肉パッカー・Hallmark/Westland社が米国史上最大、桁違いの牛肉製品大規模リコールを始めた。これら牛肉製品は狂牛病（BSE）感染もあり得る牛からの製品で、米農務省（USDA）の食品安全検査局（FSIS）が人間の消費には不適と決めたためという。
これらの牛肉製品は生前検査をパスした後に起立歩行が困難になった牛（いわゆるダウナーカウ）からのもので、工場はFSISの公衆衛生獣医に知らせ、牛のBSEの可能性を精査する手続きを怠っていた。
こうした違法行為は過去2年にわたって続いていたと見られ、FSISは、この間に生産された牛肉製品すべてを人間消費に不適とした。リコールの対象となる牛肉製品（生肉と冷凍肉）は1億4,338万3,823ポンド（約7.2万トン）にも上り、過去最大の97年・ハドソンフーズ社のO157汚染による約2,500 万ポンド（1.25万）トン牛ひき肉リコールとは桁違いだ。リストアップされたリコール製品のラベル名は69に上る。
ただし、リコール対象品は、すでにほとんど消費されてしまっているはずだ。うち17万トンは学校のランチやその他の連邦栄養改善プログラムのために買い入れられたという。
California Firm Recalls Beef Products,FSIA,08.2.17
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/PDF/Recall_005-2008_Release.pdf
これは、同社が動物の非人間的扱いと畜を防止すFSIS規則と”人間的と畜方法法”に違反する行為を続けているという訴えを受けたFSIAの調査の過程で発覚した。FSISは2月4日、すでに同社の操業停止を命じているが、この動物福祉規制違反がBSE規制違反にまで発展したわけだ。
USDAは、これらの牛がBSEに感染している可能性はほとんんどないとか、このような違反は孤発的な例だなどと不安の沈静に躍起になっている。
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HALLMARK/WESTLAND MEAT PACKING CO,USDA,2.17 ＊
しかし、この孤発例だけでも大変なリスクだ。まして、同様な調査を実施しないかぎり、他の施設でもこんな違反がないとは立証できない。米国政府は、それでも米国牛肉は世界一安全と言い張り続けるのだろうか。
出来合いのビーフカレーを食べる人は自業自得としても、給食の牛肉がやばいのですよ。前からわかりきったことだが。
Cheap Meat Working in a Slaughterhouse
http://video.hsus.org/index.jsp?fr_story=38247e8c8ea570aca40146c9477f280b28113254
参照
スポンジ脳症攻撃との闘い
http://satehate.exblog.jp/7020480/
Beef Taken Off the Menu After Largest Beef Recall in US History
http://www.medindia.net/news/Beef-Taken-Off-the-Menu-After-Largest-Beef-Recall-in-US-History-33170-1.htm
Schools in Washington state and California took beef off the menu on Monday after a Californian meatpacker recalled the largest amount of beef in US history.
But agriculture officials played down the risk to humans after Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing agreed to take back more than 143 million pounds of raw and frozen meet when it was found in violation of inspection rules.
The company, based in Chino, California, voluntarily recalled the beef after the federal Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) determined the cattle "did not receive complete and proper inspection."
The company did not "consistently contact the FSIS public health veterinarian in situations in which cattle became non-ambulatory" before being slaughtered, the USDA statement said Sunday.
Federal rules usually ban the slaughter of "downer cattle" -- those unable to walk -- as a safeguard against mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
US Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer said Hallmark/Westland had been suspended by the FSIS, and that the federal government had suspended food and nutrition contracts with the company.
"I am dismayed by the inhumane handling of cattle that resulted in the violation of food safety regulations" by the company, Schafer said in a statement.
"It is extremely unlikely that these animals were at risk for BSE because of the multiple safeguards; however this action is necessary because plant procedures violated USDA regulations," he added.
The department did not say where those food products had been sold, but schools in Washington state and California removed beef from their lunch menus as a precaution, local officials said.
America's meat packing industry has already been plagued by outbreaks of E. coli bacteria and other problems.
In September, Topps Meats Co. of New Jersey recalled 21.7 million pounds of frozen hamburger patties after people in New York and Florida fell ill because of E. coli poisoning.
The New Jersey company later filed for bankruptcy because the recall involved a full year's worth of production.
The largest previous recall involved 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats in 1999.
James Reagan, Chairman of the Beef Industry Food Safety Council, backed Sunday's recall, describing it as "a precautionary measure," but sought to reassure consumers that the US beef supply is safe.
"We have multiple interlocking safeguards in place in every beef processing plant in America so that if one is bypassed, the other systems continue to ensure the product we serve our families remains safe," Reagan said.
But William Marler, a food safety attorney from Seattle, Washington, called for congressional hearings on the safety of the US beef supply, accusing the Department of Agriculture of failing to enforce its own ban against use of downer cattle in the nation's school lunch program.
"In light of the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company, which was caught on film processing 'downer' cattle, in violation of US law, we now know that USDA ban was a lie," Marler said.
Source-AFP
SRM/L
by oninomae | 2008-02-20 01:08 | 食品添加物・有害食品
