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Re: Bone Meal

>Don't Panic. The only bonemeal I use is steamed. Heat treatment cleans the
>meal. Also, much would depend on where the bone came from. Don't use raw
>bonemeal. I never use bloodmeal and do not know the risk factor involved in
>that. If you want the truth, the disease would not have spread had basic
>proper practices been followed, ie all animal parts to be used for feed need
>to be thoroughly cooked.
>Pat in Noti, OR

Sorry, Pat.  But this information is NOT correct. The scrapie agent and the
BSE agent survive superheating--way beyond what normal cooking does.  Even
rendering-plant temperatures do not kill these agents unless solvents are
used in the extraction process.  We seem to be having the BSE problem
because scrapied sheep remains were fed to cattle after non-solvent
processing in Britain, and the scrapie agent survived to infect the cattle
eating that bonemeal.

Cooking kills a great many pathogenic microbes, indeed, but not the BSE or
the scrapie agents (assuming they are different).
--Janet
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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