Europe bovine spongiform encephalopathy

With the background of the mad cow crisis in Europe, questions relating to the prion diseases have attracted intensive interest. It is now widely accepted that prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJd) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are caused by a conformational change of the prion protein (PrP) from a normally folded cellular form, PrP ", to an alternate, aggregation-prone, pathogenic scrapie form,... 

This has been highlighted by a number of food safety issues. For example, lack of confidence that uncertainties were being adequately dealt with has been an important factor in recent public concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy and genetically modified crops, especially in Europe. Uncertainty was also a factor in the earlier controversy over alar in apples (e.g., Ames and Gold 1989 Groth 1989 Thayer 1989). 

The trend continues toward use of synthetic or vegetable-oil-based rather than animal-fat-derived additives, agree industry experts. In Europe, this trend is due to the concern of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Since many companies have customers globally, the concern has spread to the United States as well. Some companies continne to be interested in vegetable-based additives for kosher-certified applications. ... 

BSE/TSE Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a terrible disease spread through infected animal tissue that first became an issue in Europe. Concerns have inspired a trend away fi om materials derived from animal products. In polymeric materials the most common chemicals of concern are metallic stearates, typically produced from... 

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