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BSE and Cosmetics: FDA Risk Assessment and Management Perspectives - Slide 12. Specified Risk Materials (SRMs)

December 7, 2006

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Slide 12. Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) - See text below

Specified Risk Materials (SRMs)

  • What are specified risk materials?
    • Specified risk materials, from cattle 30 months and older, are the:
      • brain
      • skull
      • eyes
      • trigeminal ganglia
      • spinal cord
      • vertebral column (excluding the vertebrae of the tail, the transverse processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and the wings of the sacrum)
      • dorsal root ganglia.
  • Specified risk materials from cattle of any age are the:
    • tonsils and
    • distal ileum of the small intestine.
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