From: brad_cross@cargill.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:00 PM
To: FDAdockets@oc.fda.gov
Cc: Karen_A_Werner@cargill.com
Subject: Docket #2004N-0264 action on feed

Importance: High

I am Brad Cross and work in East St Louis IL for Cargill Incorporated.
Our mission is helping farmers prosper. We work hard to build a safe and 

reliable food supply.  We also do a lot of work to help educate the 
general
public on agriculture.  Integrity in our food supply is very important 
and we need to do it from a sound scientific base.
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, and even 
Europe with its huge BSE problem doesn't do this.  Further, it would 
cost the industry, cattlemen and dairymen at least $150,000,000 per 
year.

I urge you to thoroughly consider my request.

Sincerely,


Brad Cross