광우병에 대한 영국 정부의 노력

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How is BSE being controlled in the UK?

 

Since the late 1980s, the Government has introduced and strengthened controls to reduce the risk of people eating beef and meat products that might be infected with BSE.

The controls are based on current scientific knowledge and are designed to reduce the risk to an extremely low level, although the risk from BSE cannot be removed completely.

A key job for the Food Standards Agency is to make sure that these controls are working effectively.

The Current controls are;

1) The removal of Specified Risk Material

By law, the parts of cattle, and sheep and goats most likely to carry BSE are removed when an animal is slaughtered. They do not go into our food. These parts of the animal are known as Specified Risk Material (SRM) and include brain and spinal cord. SRM controls are estimated to remove 99% of potential infectivity in the unlikely event of an animal infected with BSE but not yet showing any clinical signs being slaughtered for human consumption. (chart containing full details of SRM).

2) BSE testing of older cattle

From November 2005, cattle aged over thirty months have been able to enter the food chain, but only if they have tested negative for BSE. The BSE testing system replaces a blanket ban on cattle aged over thirty months entering the food chain. This BSE Control (called the Over Thirty Months Rule) operated from 1996 until November 2005. Cattle younger than thirty months are unlikely to carry a significant amount of BSE. The move to testing older cattle came about following a comprehensive review by the FSA which found that the additional risk to consumers resulting from the change would be extremely low.

Cattle born before August 1996, when a reinforced ban was introduced on animal feed containing meat and bone meal (see below), will continue to be permanently excluded from the food chain. Animal feed containing meat and bone meal is thought to have been responsible for the spread of BSE among cattle.

3) Mechanically Separated Meat

In the past, products such as low-cost burgers, sausages, pies and mince included mechanically separated meat (MSM). This is meat that is stripped from the bone at high pressure because it is impossible to remove by hand. In the mid-1990s the Government banned the use of the vertebral column, or backbone, of cattle in MSM. This ban was expanded in 1998 to cover the vertebral column of all grazing animals. The production of MSM from all ruminant bones is now prohibited throughout the EU.

4) The Feed Ban

A ban on the feeding of MBM to ruminants was introduced in the UK in 1988. In August 1996 this was extended to cover the feeding of MBM to all farm animals. The Regulations now prohibit the use of mammalian protein in feed to ruminant animals, and the incorporation of mammalian meat and bone meal in any farm livestock feed.

The ban on SRM and BSE testing of older cattle are the two controls that keep potentially infected material out of the human food chain. The feed ban prevents cattle from being exposed to BSE and therefore reduces the incidence, or number of new cases, of BSE.

In addition to these controls, animals with BSE or suspected of having BSE and the offspring of BSE cases and suspects are also removed from the food chain.

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영국 정부의 광우병 대책

 1.법적으로  소, 양, 염소의 모든 SRM 부분 제거한다. 그렇지 않고서는 우리 국민의 식탁에 결코 오를 수 없다 (SRM이란 첫수, 뇌 등의 위험한 부분)

 

  2. 30개월 이상의 소의 경우, 광우병 테스트에 통과된 것만 국민의 식탁에 오를 수 있다. (2005년 11월 이후)

 

  3. 1998년부터는 MSM(사람 손이 아닌 기계로 짜서 발라낸 고기, 발라내는 중에 뼈가 들어갈 수 있어 위험하다)으로 만든 음식(싸구려 햄버거고기, 소세지 등) 중 포유류 뼈로 부터 발라낸 고기로 만든 모든 제품은 생산 금지

 

4. 소, 양, 염소의 사료에 포유류의 뼈는 물론, 단백질도 넣을 수 없다. (1996년부터)   영국 정부는 광우병으로부터 자국민을 보호하기 위해서 위와 같은 노력을 한다는 걸 알리면서, 그렇다 하더라도 국민이 광우병으로부터 100퍼센트 안전하지 않다는 걸 누누히 말하며 경고한다. 영국에 그렇게 오래 살면서도 영국에서 수백명의 광우병 환자가 발생하는 것도 몰랐다. 다들 소고기 스테이크를 해 먹고 mince 고기로 pasties를 구워 먹길래 몰랐다. 광우병 광우병 해도 그게 이 광우병인지 몰랐다.

 

나부터도 이런 걸 찾아내고 또 내 홈피에 올리고 하는 마당이니 우리 정부는  한국 국민이 정부가 미워서 괜히 꼬투리를 잡는다고 발뺌을 한다. 

 

사람들이 증거물을 코밑에 바치고서 제발 맞는 말은 좀 들으시라구요! 하는데, 정부는 왜 자꾸 정부만 미워하냐며 시위대를 잡아갈 법이나 연구하고 있다. 한심하고 창피하다.

 

나처럼 정치에 관심이 없고 나라에 애정이 없는 사람조차도 이렇게 자료를 찾아보고 하는데는 이유가 있지 않곘냔 말이다. 자료를 찾으면 찾을 수록 우리 정부가 미운 건 사실이다.

 

세상에! 영어 해석을 잘못해서 실수가 있었다니 이 농담 같은 일이 정말이라면, 그래서 진작에 이명박 정부가 영어몰입교육인가 한국어몰살교육인가를 하겠다고 들고 일어났던가 보다. 

 

단지 영어 못해서 나라를 이렇게 말아먹는다면 몰입교육이든 몰살교육이든 뭐든 해야지 이래서 되겠냔 생각은 든다.

태어나서 내 나라가 걱정되긴 처음이다.