Nutrition Advisory Group
 

Mad Cow Articles
(May 2003)

The following is information supplied by Milliken Meat products (Michelle Shaw from the Animal Nutrition Centre at the Toronto Zoo).  They  requested this information to be posted to the NAG web site.

Due to the recent discovery of a BSE cow in an Alberta cattle herd, the US government has imposed strict restrictions on products allowed to enter the United States. Below is a list of items that, until further notice, will not be permitted to cross the border from Canada. Unfortunately, this includes our TZ meat diets. Depending how long this restriction lasts, and your present stock of our diet, this could have a direct impact on the animals in your institution. Hopefully the restrictions will end soon, and we can continue to send you our meat diets. In the meantime, I suggest you contact the PPQ @ 1-800-940-6524 or your local USDA representative for any problems or questions.

1. Live ruminant animals (imports and transits)
2. Processed animal protein (such as meat and bone meal, meat meal, bone meal, blood meal, protein meal, etc.), regardless of species of origin (not intended to exclude human food in prepackaged, final form).
3. Animal feed (unless demonstrated to be of exclusively milk or non-animal origin)
4. Pet food (unless animal protein is non-mammalian origin, under permit conditions)
5. Milk replacers containing animal fat or non-milk animal protein
6. Ruminant blood and blood products
7. Animal vaccines containing ruminant-derived products
8. Ruminant offal (internal organs, intestines and tissues not otherwise specified)
9. Ruminant casings
10. Ruminant glands (including but not limited to adrenal, pancreas, thymus, thyroid, pituitary, etc...)
11. Ruminant gland extracts/derivatives
12. Unprocessed ruminant fat
13. Processed fats and oils
14. Nutritional supplements containing specified risk materials (SRMs) - bot in bulk and in final finished package for human or animal consumption
15. Ruminant bones
16. Tankage
17. Tallow, except for tallow derivatives
18. Ruminant bone-derived gelatin for animal use (permit and additional conditions will allow imports for non-animal/industrial use)
19. Ruminant-derived cartilage and/or chondroitin sulfate
20. Non-hide derived collagen (exemptions similar to those for gelatin for non-animal use)
21. Ruminant urine/urine derivatives
22. Ruminant met and meat products (including those in shelf-stable cans)

(NOTE: The above list is not all an all inclusive list. The following animal products and by-products are still eligible for entry: Canadian origin milk, milk products, ruminant hide-derived products. Refer to PPQ Officers for specific Guidance)

PPQ number: 1-800-940-6524

Posted to NAGonline.net 5/30/03