For a long time we thought that BSE belongs to the past. Now the disease has appeared in the Scottish Aberdeenshire. There are bad memories.
After the BSE epidemic in the 1990s, many cattle and burned had to be killed
Colloquially, BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) mad cow disease is not known. The affected animals are unusually aggressive, you can’t control your legs, stagger and fall constantly.
The images of sick animals were the last major BSE epidemic in the 1990s in the world by the media.
The disease is transmitted by prions, infectious proteins. The cattle to the feed, often about animal flour. It used to be fed very often, although cattle are herbivores.
The MBM, in turn, came from the waste products of the slaughter of cattle and sheep. Although the pathogen that is responsible for the disease can not be identified, there remains a clear, clear, however, is incorrectly folded prions play a Central role in the spread of BSE, they cannot be broken down by the body. Rather, they accumulate in the tissue of the Central nervous system and damage it sustained. It comes to the complete Degeneration of the nerve cells.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease destroys nerve cells in the brain and is incurable
No Chance for the Infected
To humans, this disease can be transmitted, probably through the consumption of infected meat. In humans, this Form of brain disease Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is called. She was formerly particularly common in certain regions, where also a lot of sheep meat was consumed, and also where the brains and other meat ingredients with nerve cells, considered to be a delicacy.
It comes within a very short time the complete loss of all brain functions. The disease develops very quickly and is not curable. The Affected are in need of care, and finally Creutzfeldt-Jakob inevitably leads to death.
First Symptoms
The first indication that it might be a people for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, memory and coordination problems. Often it comes down to personality changes. The symptoms can not be treated, neither in humans nor in animals.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals1997: The “Mad Cow Disease”
Wrong organic eggs, horse meat – two new chapters in the history of the misconduct in the case of food. The “mother” of all scandals: the disease BSE, In the 1990s, experienced this fatal disease of the bovine brain in the world at its peak. 1997 reach illegal beef imports from United Kingdom Germany. Thousands of animals are killed, less meat eaten – for a short time.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2001: Also dangerous for people
As the cause of BSE is the feeding of animal meal and animal fat, which is banned across Europe in 2001. Whether the disease transmits to humans, was for a long time controversial. Today it is considered pretty sure she does. New Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the disease, which is lethal to humans. Of the infection until the outbreak, however, may be decades.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2005/2007: rotten meat
Starting in 2005, rotten meat, “” all the rage, in the election for word of the year, it lands on the fifth rank. The opening of several branches of a supermarket chain. Here, employees are caught in the Manipulate of meat packaging. They had Packed minced meat with expired consumption date and the expiration date extended.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2005/2007: thousands of tons in circulation
Soon: thousands of tons of meat are in circulation that are no longer suitable for human consumption, to the part years old. How much meat is landed at this time in German canteens, and Kebab stands, can no longer be resolved. Still to 2007, similar cases of fraud are open to the public.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2008/2010: Mozzarella with bird’s eye
Tainted Mozzarella from Italy is landing counters 2008 German Cheese. A total of approximately 11 000 tonnes of worms, and bird’s eye contaminated cheese in Europe should be as far as fresh product in supermarkets offered. Two years later, is found in Italy’s national cheese of the environmental poison Dioxin.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2010/2011: Dioxin Scandal
At the end of 2010, the Dioxin in the feed of laying hens is found operation. Thousands of farms in lower Saxony are locked. A feed manufacturer has used to fats from the production of Diesel and so the contaminated feed to farms in the whole of Germany delivered. Dioxin-contaminated eggs and pig meat reaching the market.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2011: EHEC-epidemic
In Germany, around 50 people die of the consequences of the EHEC-Darmkeims. First, raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce are suspected as the cause of the dangerous diarrhea disease. A total of almost 4000 people are diagnosed. After long detective investigation identified sprouts from Egypt as a trigger.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2012: Contaminated Strawberries
The Norovirus spreads in September and October in the five East German Federal States. Nearly 11,000 children are sent, with vomiting and diarrhea from Kindergarten and school to home. Debt-to-cooling-deep strawberries from China.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2013: horse meat in ready-made products
In several European countries it is found in finished products that are supposed to contain beef, horse meat. Also in Germany in mid-February by various supermarket chains lasagna from the assortment, which was incorrectly declared, and up to 100 percent horse meat.
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Germany, Your Food Scandals2013: The Bio-Lie
Hundreds of farmers have sold their eggs as organic, although the hens are kept in cramped battery cages. Millions of eggs are incorrectly labelled gone in the trade.