From: Steve_Burghardi@cargill.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:15 PM
To: FDAdockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Specified Risk Materials (SRM) Regulations - Comment

Importance: High

Comment:

Please immediately enact regulation that requires the removal of the
brain and spinal cord from all cattle over 30 months of age. This will
result in a 99.8% risk reduction of all infectivity. Please do not
require the removal of all SRMs, because this only improves the risk
reduction by 0.1% but will cost more than $157,000,000 per year and
cause a huge environmental problem.

On another subject, ruminant derived blood meal: I understand you are
considering removing ruminant blood meal from ruminant feed. I
understand there is no scientific justification for this. Further, it
would cost the industry, cattlemen and dairymen at least $150,000,000
per year. Please do not remove ruminant blood meal from ruminant feed.

I urge you to thoroughly consider my request.

Sincerely,  

Steve Burghardi, Ph.D. 
Technology Deployment Mgr, Dairy 
Cargill Animal Nutrition 
12900 Whitewater Dr, MS-14 
Minnetonka, MN  55343 
Office: (952) 984-1820 
FAX:     (952) 404-6215 
Mobile: (612) 812-6434 
RNET:   855-41820 

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