Re: Contaminated bone meal

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• Subject: Re: Contaminated bone meal
• From: k*@ix.netcom.com (Kevin B. O'Brien)
• Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:16:08 GMT
• In-Reply-To: <199905170307.XAA03609@smtp2.erols.com>
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On Sun, 16 May 1999 23:07:20 -0400 (EDT), Janet Wintermute
<jwintermute@erols.com> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:

>It would appear, then, that the combination of heat plus solvent was
>sufficient to KILL the scrapie/BSE-causing prions but heat alone (the
>current regime) is not enough.
>
>It seems to me that if prions can be killed, they must perforce be alive.

Obviously there is a semantic problem here in defining what we mean
by "alive". But I am not sure that your reasoning is right. Prions
could be a chemical that is not broken down by the level of heat
used in the extraction process, but is broken down by a chemical
reaction with the solvents.


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