What further measures and actions are needed to protect animals and reduce the risk of BSE?
• We must be watchful for any efforts in Congress to weaken the USDA’s administrative ban on downers in the food supply, such as attempting a narrower definition of downers to exclude animals who supposedly become nonambulatory because of injury. • Every cow over 20 months of age should be tested for BSE before being used in food for humans or pets, and restrictions should be put in place to ensure that high-risk tissue from rendered cows does not end up in human or pet food. • The FDA must strengthen enforcement of its feed ban and close loopholes to prohibit blood, manure, slaughterhouse waste, and other animal products from being used as feed for any farm animal. • All persons in the animal industry should be trained on how to prevent animals from becoming downers. • All individual animals should be traceable from birth, using non-invasive, tamper-resistant bio-metric techniques, such as retinal vascular eye scans. • Country of origin labels should be incorporated into all animal pr
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