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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Cattle with brucellosis are perfectly safe to eat.

That doesn't jibe with what I'm reading.

7 posted on 01/03/2012 4:13:38 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

***Cattle with brucellosis are perfectly safe to eat.

That doesn’t jibe with what I’m reading. ***

Years ago a neighbor’s cattle herd banged out. The cattle were immediately branded with a B on the jaw and SENT TO THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE by agricultural authorities.

Buffalo that wander out of Yellowstone are shot, and are ok to eat even though they also have “Bang’s Disease”. It is the fear of infecting clean herds of cattle that gets them shot.

Bang’s disease..
Brucellosis
Undulant fever...

all the same.


8 posted on 01/03/2012 4:44:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: decimon

MANUAL ON MEAT INSPECTION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0756e/T0756E03.htm

BRUCELLOSIS...
Judgement: Cattle and horse carcasses affected with brucellosis are approved (after removal of affected parts), as Brucella bacteria remain viable for only a short period in the muscles after slaughter. In acute abortive form (after the miscarriage), cattle carcasses are condemned. Pig, sheep, goat and buffalo carcasses require total condemnation. Heat treatment may be recommended in some areas for these species due to economic reasons. Affected part of the carcass, udder, genital organs and corresponding lymph nodes must be condemned.

In other words, Brucellosis infected meat is ok to eat, unless it is in the abortive phase. Then the meat can still be eaten if it is completely cooked.


10 posted on 01/03/2012 5:18:55 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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