[1] The Associated Press 21 May 2003.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Financial Times (London) 21 May 2003.

[4] The New York Times 21 May 2003.

[5] The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 21 May 2003.

[6] Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund News Release. United Stockgrowers of America. 21 May 2003. http://www.r-calfusa.com/052003-canada.htm

[7] United States General Accounting Office. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts. GAO-02-183. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

[8] Ibid.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Kimberlin, R. H. "Human Spongiform Encephalopathies and BSE." Medical Laboratory Sciences 49 (1992): 216-217.

[11] Canadian Food Inspection Agency BSE Fact Sheet. May 2003 P0091E-00. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/bseesbe.shtml

[12] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/21cfr589_00.html

[13] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Regulations: Food for Ruminants, Livestock and Poultry (Part XIV), "Prohibited Materials"

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[14] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/21cfr589_00.html

[15] International Center for Technology Assessment. Citizen Petition Before The United States Food And Drug Administration. 1/9/03. http://www.icta.org/legal/madcow1.htm

[16] Ibid.

[17] Kirchheimer, Gabe. Bovine Bioterrorism: The Perfect Pathogen. In Everything You Know Is Wrong. The Disinformation Company. 2002.

[18] Ibid.

[19] American Red Cross Addresses the Human Form of Mad Cow Disease http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/supply/tse.html

[20] Journal of General Virology 83(2002):2897-2905.

[21] Japan Today 24 August 2002.

[22] Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Regulations: Food for Ruminants, Livestock and Poultry (Part XIV), "Prohibited Materials"

[23] Food and Drug Administration 2000 CFR Title 21, Volume 6, Chapter 1, Part 589. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/21cfr589_00.html

[24] Public Citizen. Letter to the FDA and USDA RE: BSE. 21 April 2001. http://www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety/gsfc/articles.cfm?ID=1562

[25] Food and Drug Administration Sec. 685.100 Recycled Animal Waste (CPG 7126.34)

[26] National Post 21 May 2003.

[27] Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru. 13 December 1976. http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1976/gajdusek-lecture.html

[28] NBC Dateline 14 March 1997.

[29] Pearce, Fred. "BSE May Lurk in Pigs and Chickens." New Scientist 6 April 1996: 5.

[30] Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Questions and Answers. Investigation of BSE case in Alberta. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/newcom/2003/20030520qae.shtml

[31] Taylor, D. M. "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy." Medical Laboratory Sciences 49 (1992): 334-9.

[32] Lacey, Richard W. and Stephen F. Dealler. "The BSE Time Bomb?" The Ecologist 21 (1991): 117- 122.

[33] Marsh, R. F., and R. A. Bessen. "Epidemiologic and Experimental Studies on Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy." Developments in Biological Standardization 80 (1993): 111-118.

[34] Dealler, S. F. and R. Lacey. "Beef and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy." Nutrition and Health 7 (1991): 117-129.

[35] Dealler, S. F. and R. Lacey. "Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies." Food Microbiology 7 (1990): 253-279.

[36] Holt, T. A. and J. Phillips "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy." British Medical Journal 296 (1988): 1581-2.

[37] Brown, Paul, et al. "Resistance of Scrapie Infectivity to Steam Autoclaving after Formaldehyde Fixation and Limited Survival after Ashing at 360oC." Journal of Infectious Diseases 161 (1990): 467-472.

[38] Gibbs, C.J. "BSE and Other Spongiform Encephalopathies in Humans and Animals: Causative Agent, Pathogenesis and Transmission." Fall 1994 Food Science Seminar Series. Department of Food Science. Cornell University, 1 December 1994.

[39] Keeton, William T., et al. Biological Science New York: Norton, 1993.

[40] Hunter, G. D. Scrapie and Mad Cow Disease New York: Vantage Press, 1993.

[41] Ottawa Citizen 6 June 2001

[42] Evans, Eddie. "Agency to Ban Some Feeds to Block Mad-Cow Disease." Reuters World Report 13 May 1996.

[43] "AVMA Casts Doubt on Spread of BSE Through Sheep Offal." Food Chemical News 28 November 1994: 42-45.

[44] Washington Post 21 May 2003.

[45] Toronto Star 21 May 2003.

[46] The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo) 12 September 2002.

[47] Ibid.

[48] United States General Accounting Office. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts. GAO-02-183. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

[49] USDA News Release No. 0166.03. Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman Regarding Canada's Announcement of BSE Investigation. May 20, 2003.

[50] European Union. Monthly reports of Member States on BSE and Scrapie. http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/bse/testing/bse_results_en.html

[51] USA Today 21 May 2003.

[52] The Washington Post 21 May 2003.

[53] Ibid.

[54] USDA Center for Animal Health Programs. Chronic Wasting Disease. 13 May 2003. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nahps/cwd/cwd-distribution.html

[55] Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. CWD Management Zone. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/wildlife/whealth/issues/cwd/CWDzones.jpg

[56] Connecticut Post 22 September 2002.

[57] European Molecular Biology Organization Journal 19(2000):4425-4430. http://emboj.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/17/4425

[58] FDA Talk Paper T03-34. 15 May 2003.

[59] What Canadians Need to Know About Mad Cow Disease. Canadian Health Coalition. 13 July 2001. http://www.healthcoalition.ca/bse.html

[60] USA Today 21 May 2003.

[61] National Cattlemen's Beef Association news release. 21 May 2003. http://www.beef.org/dsp/dsp_content.cfm?locationId=45&contentTypeId=2&contentId=2098

[62] Canadian Television Network 21 May 2003.

[63] National Cattlemen's Beef Association news release. 21 May 2003. http://www.beef.org/dsp/dsp_content.cfm?locationId=45&contentTypeId=2&contentId=2098

[64] Canadian Television Network 21 May 2003.

[65] Ibid.

[66] National Post 21 May 2003.

[67] A Review of USDA Slaughterhouse Records for Downed Animals (U.S. District 65 from January, 1999 to June, 2001) Farm Sanctuary, October 2001. http://www.nodowners.org/downedanimals.pdf

[68] National Cattlemen's Beef Association news release. 21 May 2003. http://www.beef.org/dsp/dsp_content.cfm?locationId=45&contentTypeId=2&contentId=2098

[69] European Molecular Biology Organization Reports 4, 5 (2003), 530.

[70] Health and Consumer Groups Urge USDA to Keep Cattle Spinal Cord Tissue Out of Processed Meat" Center for Science in the Public Interest News Release. 10 August 2001.

[71] USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA Begins Sampling Program for Advanced Meat Recovery Systems, News Release.3 March 2002.

[72] United States General Accounting Office. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts. GAO-02-183. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

[73] USDA Response To GAO Recommendations on BSE Prevention. Release No. F.S. 0071.02.

[74] Garland et al. "Brain emboli in the lungs of cattle after stunning" The Lancet 348(1996):610.

[75] Chicago Tribune 21 May 21 2003.

[76] Toronto Star 21 May 21 2003.

[77] Chicago Tribune 21 May 21 2003.

[78] "Ministers Hostile to Advice on BSE." New Scientist 30 March 1996: 4.

[79] United States General Accounting Office. GAO Report to Congressional Requesters. January 2002 MAD COW DISEASE: Improvements in the Animal Feed Ban and Other Regulatory Areas Would Strengthen U.S. Prevention Efforts. GAO-02-183. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02183.pdf

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