By JCPRESS
"Stock Raising System Society" composed of the livestock industry specialist, the enterprise, the administration, and the citizens opened symposium "BSE and fodder problem" in Nippon Veterinary and Zootechnical College on June 11.
Katsunosuke Mitani, Professor of Hiroshima University Graduate School, Chairman of this society, reported the infection route of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) infection cows that were born in Japan between 1995 and 1996 to be "The milk replacer, milk substitute, that used the animal oil and fat from the Netherlands polluted by the anomalous prion protein for the raw material might be a cause".
Prof. Mitani criticized the report of "BSE Epidemiology Examination Team" of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that denied the milk substitute infection theory by an over and over again wrong statistical work again.
On the other hand, Prof. Mitani emphasized, "The fodder industry had to share the consumer with information, and to investigate the cause of BSE infection".
Prof. Mitani points out, "The cause of the BSE infection in Japan must be an import raw material of the fodder taken when the first infection group was a calf" by thesis "Problem of BSE report and in the future" announced on that day.
And, he is explaining, "The first mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) pollution cow's group was processed between 1999 and 2001. The possibility that those cows polluted the domestic production raw material for the first time cannot be denied".
As for the milk substitute that had been given to the first infection group, powdery oils and fats from the Netherlands were used as the raw material.
The thesis was published in "Stock raising system society report" (No.29) that had been published in June, 2005.
Japan Consumer Press July 1, 2005 No.713 , online published : July 6, 2005