ruminant protein

All three were born after the July 1988 ban on using ruminant protein in feed for other ruminants.

However, I cannot accept the exemption for feeding cats with ruminant protein from the ban.

Renderers report that any initial losses in ruminant protein sales due to the publicity have since been recaptured.

The feeding of ruminant proteins to ruminants is considered to be the main source of BSE transmission to cattle.

The F.D.A.'s rules against feeding ruminant protein to ruminants make exceptions for "blood products" (even though they contain protein) and fat.

The Federal Food and Drug Administration also announced yesterday that it "will expedite regulations prohibiting all ruminant protein in ruminant feeds."

- The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine to expe-dite regulations prohibiting ruminant protein in ruminant feeds.

This group recommended that ruminant protein be banned from cattle feed, and a crucial issue being examined by the inquiry is the efficiency with which that ban was put into effect.

Laws in developed countries now ban the use of rendered ruminant proteins in ruminant feed as a precaution against the spread of prion infection in cattle and other ruminants.

I also cannot accept the limitation of extending the feed ban to any species, mainly pet animals, only if a risk of cross-contamination of livestock feed exists, as we believe that ruminant protein should be banned for all susceptible species.

Since render-ing does not appear to destroy the transmissible agent, and given the fact that authorities are only on the lookout for cows exhibiting "mad cow"-like behav-ior, the agent causing the spongiform encephalopathy may be spreading through the use of rendered ruminant protein.

Mr. Johanns refused to give details about the animal, other than to repeat that it was born before the 1997 ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants, that it was raised for beef, not dairy, and that it was too crippled to walk when it was killed.