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| FSIS to Hold a Technical Meeting to Discuss the Updated Risk Assessment
for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
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Congressional and Public Affairs
(202) 720-9113
Bridgette Keefe
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2006 - The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced a technical
meeting to present and receive comments on an updated risk assessment
for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States.
The technical meeting to discuss the updated model will be held from 1 - 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, 2006, in the
Jefferson Auditorium of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, D.C., 20250. The agenda will be posted prior to
the meeting on FSIS' Web site at https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106102414/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/news/meetings_&_events/.
Pre-registration is recommended for this meeting. To pre-register, please contact Diane Jones at (202) 720-9692 or by e-mail at
Diane.Jones@fsis.usda.gov.
In April 1998, USDA entered into a cooperative agreement with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA) of the Harvard
School of Public Health and the Center for Computational Epidemiology at Tuskegee University to conduct a comprehensive
investigation of the BSE risk in the United States. The report, referred to as the Harvard Risk Assessment, was completed
in 2001, and was revised in 2003 after being peer reviewed.
Both USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented measures to
strengthen protections against BSE in the United States immediately following the discovery of BSE in a cow in Washington
State on December 23, 2003. USDA then contracted with the HCRA in May 2004 to revise the Harvard Risk Assessment model
to reflect information available through December 2003.
The updated risk assessment analyzes the effects of various BSE risk mitigation scenarios. HCRA analyzed the effects of
the measures implemented by USDA and HHS-FDA and analyzed recommendations made by an international expert BSE panel that
was convened to review the actions taken by the United States in response to the BSE case in Washington State.
Comments on the notice for the updated Harvard Risk Assessment may be submitted either through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at www.regulations.gov or electronically to
FSIS.RegulationsComments@usda.gov.
For further details pertaining to the updated risk assessment, contact Dr. Chuanfa Guo, Senior Risk Analyst, Risk
Assessment Division, Office of Public Health Science, by phone at (202) 690-0817. Persons requiring a sign language
interpreter or other special accommodations for the public meeting should contact Ms. Jones.
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