NR AXYX
AU Wilson,M.A.; Krewski,D.; Tyshenko,M.G.
TI Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Policy in Australia
QU International Conference - Prion 2007 (26.-28.9.2007) Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - Book of Abstracts: Epidemiology, Risk Assessment and Transmission P04.38
IA http://www.prion2007.com/pdf/Prion Book of Abstracts.pdf
PT Konferenz-Poster
AB Australia's geographical isolation has given it an advantage in excluding many agricultural pests and diseases, including foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, scrapie, and contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, as well as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). This natural advantage has been strengthened with import restrictions and a strict quarantine system. Australia's 1966 ban on stockfeed imports of animal origin from any country except New Zealand significantly reduced the external challenge to the country's beef industry during the height of the BSE epidemic. External challenges were further reduced in 1988 with a ban on live cattle from countries affected by BSE, and lifetime quarantine for such animals already in the country; however measures to control BSE should it enter the country have not been widely implemented. There is no ban on specified risk materials (SRM) or downer cattle in rendering. A 1997 ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban evolved into a 'specified mammalian material'-to-ruminant ban in 1999 and by 2002 a vertebrate-to-ruminant ban was in place. Surveillance is undertaken according to Office International des Epizooties (OIE) guidelines, and in 2005 the rate of testing was approximately 0.01%. Australia is the world's largest exporter of beef by value and was only recently overtaken by Brazil as the largest exporter by volume. The benefits of BSE-freedom were highlighted after 2003 when the first U.S. case of BSE prompted Japan and some other Asian nations to ban U.S. beef and source their beef from Australia instead. However, while Australia exported nearly $5 billion worth of beef in 2004-2005, it also received nearly $15 billion from exports of cotton, milk products, fish, grain, wool, sugar and other horticultural products. In attempting to encourage its trading partners to adopt consistent, 'science-based', import standards for its other exports, Australia has had to appear to relax its BSE vigilance to some extent, while at the same time providing convincing evidence that the country is taking all appropriate steps to control the disease.
AD M. Wilson, D. Krewski, M.G. Tyshenko, University of Ottawa, McLaughlin Centre, Canada
SP englisch
PO Schottland
EA pdf-Datei und Poster (Postertitel: Bovine Spongiforme Encephalopathy Risk Management in Australia)