Is British beef made from mad cows?

Question

and wot does CJD stand for?

Answer 1

No. And Cows Jumping Disease (Seriously)

Answer 2

CJD stands for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is the human equivalent to Mad Cow disease.

The only mad cows are the politicians and media scare-mongers who keep throwing this rubbish at us. Just as millions have dies from bird flu, so have millions gone loopy from eating beef.

No, really, everyone's gonna get it. If we don't get blown up or (more likely) die of old age first.

Answer 3

I prefer British Beef over American.
I Cr 13;8a
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Answer 4

no. british beef is not made from mad cows. us mad cows write on yahoo answers. cjd stans for cows joining debates. honestly. its true. ask the other mad cows on here. lol. :)
lets debate this

Answer 5

Several clusters of a rare brain disorder known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have popped up in the United States in recent years and although none has been linked to the consumption of mad-cow-infected meat, J.P. Morgan Securities, has advised its investors the cases could affect the beef industry negatively.

UP TO 3,000 people treated in 100 British hospitals may have been injected with blood products taken from a donor who died six weeks ago from new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of BSE. None of them is to be told because the Health Department believes the risk of them developing the disease is so slight that there is no reason to cause alarm.
Although hospitals have been advised to return the product, used in X-ray screenings to detect lung disease, so far only 15 per cent has been recovered. There is no order obliging hospitals to return it and some clinicians may go on using up stocks on the basis that patients are far more likely to die from infections or cancer that can be diagnosed with the product than from CJD.

Another 268 patients in Ireland are known to have been given injections from the same batch of the product. The Irish Health Ministry has decided to notify all the patients concerned.

Even though the identity of all those who have been given an injection of the product is known, it was decided not to tell them because there is no evidence that the illness can be transmitted through the blood or the serum derived from it to make the product and the risk of developing CJD is regarded as negligible.

"You are putting an enormous burden on people by telling them they have a remote risk of contracting the disease," the department said last night. "The ethics committee which advises us on these matters decided it was just not appropriate to tell them."
The blood from the donor was sent 18 months ago to the National Blood Authority laboratory, where it was split into a number of different products. The donor's plasma was mixed with some taken from 49,000 other donors to make 8,174 bottles of albumin, the water-soluble protein found in blood.
Many were exported but 210 of the 50ml bottles remained in Britain and were sent to eight different hospitals and companies. Some of the bottles were used intravenously to rehydrate burn victims.

One bottle was sent to Nycomed Amersham which used it to produce 14,000 vials of Amerscan Pulmonate II, an agent which is injected into the lungs so that infections and cancer show up under X-ray. The company sent almost 3,700 vials to 100 British hospitals.

At the end of October the European Committee on Proprietary Medicinal Products called for the withdrawal of blood products derived from donors who were confirmed CJD cases. On November 1 the Blood Transfusion Service was notified that one of its donors had died from the disease so the Amersham company was told.

In turn the company got in touch with the Medicines Control Agency which informed the Health Department and it recommended withdrawal of the product on November 17.

Despite regular alarms, there has never been any convincing evidence that blood or blood products can transmit CJD (Nigel Hawkes writes). Unless new variant CJD, the human form of "mad cow" disease, is more easily transmitted than classic CJD via blood or blood products, there does not appear to be any cause for concern.

For classic CJD the risk seems negligible. About 50 people a year die of the disease, so it is certain that every year some of them give blood after they have the infection but before its symptoms appear. Studies show that classic CJD can be passed on in human tissue, but not - so far as we know - in blood.

Answer 6

Course not! British beef is very good and very safe. It stands for Croeksfeld Jacobs Disease but I wouldn't trust my spelling of that.

Answer 7

Ask the british mad cows for information.

Answer 8

No. we use all non mad cows now. Any cow showing madness is invited to join the House of Lords.

Answer 9

i married a mad cow

Answer 10

creutzfeld jacob disease. (bad bad spelling though)

british beef is safe!