[Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 16, Issue 20 consumption of wsste products by hogs

[Dick Gallien]

Jim--thanks for the response.  If a state decides to allow foodwaste 
feeding, then it is evidently up to the state to enforce the fed. 
regulations.  In 10 yrs. of feeding I have never seen anyone from USDA, only 
the state ag. inspector.  He mentioned being at lunch with a Tx. inspector, 
while at a conference there and the Texan mentioned there were over 6,000 
feeding in Tx..  Later we checked and there are only 2,000 some licensed in 
Tx..  We mentioned that on his next visit and he said there are that many 
licensed but the Tx. inspector estimated over 6,000 were feeding food waste. 
He also said food waste feeding has always been big in the se states and the 
Mob controls it in NJ..  Knowing how difficult this law is to enforce, it is 
suprising there aren't more desease outbreaks, especially with so much food 
being imported.

Dick Gallien
22501 East Burns Valley Road
Winona  MN  55987
dickgallien at msn.com  [507]454-3126
www.thewinonafarm.com
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Subject: Re: [Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 16,Issue 20 consumption of 
wsste products by hogs


> The practice of garbage/food waste feeding (on production agricultural
> scale) is regulated because of the potential for disease transmission.
>
> Tapeworm and Trichinosis are the classical parasitic concerns, but 
> probable
> transmission of foot and mouth disease and possibly other viruses have
> happened in the past.
>
> In reality, no one is ever sure what actually was in the food 
> waste/garbage,
> when an outbreak occurs, and if no other source is identified, food waste
> gets the blame.  So the regulations are written to ban feeding outright or
> require cooking the food waste to temperatures sufficient to inactivate
> parasites and viruses.
>
> In the US, you will find that states with a large swine population (and
> others) are especially cautious of anything which might allow a small 
> amount
> of diseased material to be multiplied/disseminated through the swine
> population.  Nationwide, even in states where it is allowed, feeding food
> waste is regulated by USDA because of regulations prohibiting feeding of
> bovine products back to cattle among other concerns.
>
> Regulation of garbage/food waste feeding adds another layer of defense
> against importation by normal trade (foreign grown food products), and 
> other
> accidental or deliberate introduction of infectious disease into a 
> country.
> And it makes it less likely for there to be spread of the disease even if 
> it
> makes it across the borders.  After all, if some bit of disease containing
> material is "wasted" in a landfill or digested in a thermophilic digester,
> it is unlikely to ever be near enough to another live animal who might
> contract the disease for tramsission to occur.
>
> James R Rankin, DVM
> Cedarcrest Farms Inc
> Faunsdale, AL USA
>
>
>
>
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