Bio-Rad is the other company that markets a test kit, post mortem. biz.yahoo.com
Actually has income. PE is a bit rich, but I didn't check their growth rate. I did see a blurb about the possibility that their test missed a case of BSE
[B] MAD COW:German Press: BSE high-speed test not thorough enough
By BridgeNews
Frankfurt--Jan. 21--Bio-Rad, currently the most widely used high-speed BSE test for cows in Germany shows a grave lack of security measures, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel said in its pre-released article Sunday. The magazine suggested that during a test phase in Bavaria, a BSE-contaminated cow had not been detected with the disease, while the BSE Reference Center in Tuebingen was able to discover the ailing animal right away without a problem with a similar test introduced by competitor Prionics.
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Furthermore, up to this point the high-speed BSE test was applied only to healthy cows, which were under suspicion of BSE-contamination, the magazine said.
According to the German federal research office and the manufacturer Bio-Rad the differing test results could be caused by problems in taking specimens from the cow's contaminated brain, the magazine added.
[B] MAD COW: German Press: Expert sees chance of BSE relay via grass
By BridgeNews
Frankfurt--Nov. 29--It cannot be ruled out that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or mad cow disease can be transmitted by grass to cattle not being fed with animal feed containing meat and bone meal (MBM), Markus Moser of
Swiss company Prionics AG, who invented the quick test for BSE, told German weekly magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
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"Stupid enough, MBM has been mixed with plant fertilizer in Switzerland and the United Kingdom when MBM has been forbidden and was then spread everywhere," he told WirtschaftsWoche, according to an advanced copy of a report due Thursday.
He added that it is "still unclear" as to how BSE can be transmitted. The comments come as Germany's ruling coalition has agreed on a legislation to be put to parliament enabling a ban on MBM to take effect from Saturday. The ban was proposed by Agriculture Minister Karl-Heinz Funke in response to discovery of BSE in a German born cow last week. The country previously had
been thought BSE-free.
The new law will debated by the lower house of parliament on Thursday and by the upper house of parliament on Friday. If approved it would take effect on Saturday. Approval is seen as almost certain. End |
