From: JR_Prance@cargill.com
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:24 PM
To: FDAdockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: cattle regulations

"Please immediately enact regulation 
that requires the removal of the brain and spinal cord from all cattle 
over 30 months of age.  This will result in a 99.8% risk reduction of 
all infectivity.  Please do not require the removal of all SRMs, because 

this only improves the risk reduction by 0.1% but will cost more than 
$157,000,000 per year and cause a huge environmental problem.

On another subject, ruminant derived blood meal:  I understand you are 
considering removing ruminant blood meal from ruminant feed.  I 
understand there is no scientific justification for this, and even 
Europe with its huge BSE problem doesn't do this.  Further, it would 
cost the industry, cattlemen and dairymen at least $150,000,000 per 
year.

I urge you to thoroughly consider my request.

Sincerely,



J. R. Prance, CTA
Personal Marketing Manager
Cargill AgHorizons Marketing Service
SEMO Farm Service Group



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