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The Food and Drug Administration "banned brains and other cattle parts that could carry mad cow disease [4] from use in cosmetics and dietary supplements, but delayed some similar safeguards in animal feed for up to two years." In January, Health and Human Services [5] Secretary Tommy Thompson [6] proposed an "interim final rule" (first discussed in 2002) to strengthen animal feed regulations. "We must never be satisfied with the status quo," he said [7]. But new feed regulations have now been downgraded to an "advance notice of proposed rulemaking," which delays possible implementation. Today, Thompson explained [8], "We cannot be content with the status quo."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment/agriculture/mad-cow-disease
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[4] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mad_cow_disease
[5] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Tommy_G._Thompson
[7] http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2004pres/20040126.html
[8] http://www.usda.gov/Newsroom/0280.04.html
[9] http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20040709/madcowfdadc.html