Prevention and Safeguard Measures For Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Prevention and Safeguard Measures For bovid Spongiform Encephalopathy ( mad cow disease).AbstractBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as pallid cow disease, is a disease that damages the aboriginal nervous constitution and results to death. This disease is caused by abnormal proteins, or prions, and directly kills nervous tissues, therefore is directly linked to the spinal cord and brain. The get together States Department of land and the United States Food and medicine Administrations have set safeguards and firewalls to prevent BSE-contaminated shout out from entering into the human food supply. Human consumption of BSE- contaminated recoil results to variant Creutzfedt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which is also fatal. So far, there are no cures for BSE, or for vCJD, but only treatments to help stabilize the symptoms of the disease as the disease progresses.Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as ghastly cow disease, is a slowly progressive, degenerative, fatal disease that damages the central nervous system of adult cattle. It is universally accepted among the scientific corporation that the cause of BSE is from infectious forms of prions, which is a type of protein that is found in animals and is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). The exact cause of BSE is not known. In cattle that have BSE, these abnormal prions initially breathe in the small intestines and tonsils, and are found in the brain, spinal cord, and some other nervous tissues of animals in later stages of this disease (USFDA/CFSAN, 2005). These abnormal prions trigger concatenation reactions through all the other proteins in the brain and cause those proteins to switch over into the abnormal prions, thus damaging the brain and the result is death (Massachusetts Dep... ...h. July 20, 2005 www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/factsheets/madcow.htmSpengler, R. (2004, February). disquieted Cow Disease. Yahoo Health. July 20, 2005www.health.yahoo. com/ency/healthwise/tu6533United States Food and Drug Administration. (2004, May). Agencies Work to cow pen Mad Cow Disease. U. S. Food and Drug Administration. July 20, 2005www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/304_cow.htmlUnited States Food and Drug Administration. (2004, July). BSE Interim Final Rule andProposed Rule. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. July 20, 2005www.cfsan.fda.gov/comm/bsefact2.htmlUnited States Food and Drug Administration. (2005, June). Commonly Asked QuestionsPrevention and Safeguard Measures for BSE 7About BSE in Products Regulated by FDAs totality for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). U.S. Food and Drug Administration. July 20, 2005 www.cfsan.fda.gov/comm/bsefaq.html