미국에서 30개월 넘은 소는 개 사료로도 못쓰는법이 통과했다네요.

[이래도 할말있냐]

2009년 4월부터 이 법이 시작되나봐요.
한국인은 미국개만도 못한거였군요....
(미국인 신랑이 보내준 이메일에 있던 어태치먼입니다.
출처가 어딘지 신랑 일어나면 물어볼께요.)

FDA bans certain cattle parts from all animal feed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. makers of pet food and all other animal feed will be prevented from using certain materials from cattle at the greatest risk for spreading mad cow disease under a rule that regulators finalized on Wednesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which oversees animal feed, said excluding high-risk materials from cattle 30 months of age or older from all animal feed will prevent any accidental cross-contamination between ruminant feed (intended for animals such as cattle) and non-ruminant feed or feed ingredients.
The new rule takes effect in April, 2009.
Contamination could occur during manufacture, transport or through the accidental misfeeding of non-ruminant feed to ruminant animals.
Canada and the United States banned the inclusion of protein from cows and other ruminant animals such as goats and sheep in cattle feed in 1997, following a mad cow outbreak in Britain.
The measure issued today finalizes a proposed rule opened for public comment in October 2005. It goes into effect on April 23, 2009.
The major U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease are the feed ban, a prohibition against slaughtering most "downer" cattle -- animals too sick to walk on their own -- for human food, and a requirement for meatpackers to remove from carcasses the brains, spinal cords and other parts most likely to contain the malformed proteins blamed for the disease.
Mad cow disease is a fatal, brain-wasting disease believed to be spread by contaminated feed. People can contract a human version of the disease, know as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or vCJD, which scientists believe can be spread by eating contaminated parts from an infected animal.
The United States has found three cases of mad cow disease, including the first one detected in December of 2003. Soon after, U.S. beef exports were virtually halted. U.S. official have been slowly working to resume beef shipments.  Continued...

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의 의견에 의하면 이 조치는 미국정부가 일년에 10억 달라씩 쇠고기 수출로 벌기 위해서 만든것 같다고 하는군요. 말하자면 모양을 갖추는 것이죠. 한국과 협상타결 "이후" 에요.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2344375420080424