From: josh_gatewood@cargill.com
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:39 AM
To: FDAdockets@oc.fda.gov
Cc: Karen_A_Werner@cargill.com
Subject: Docket #2004N-0264

	Good Morning,
	My name is Josh Gatewood and I work with Cargill Inc.  Being a 
student of Agriculture and having a B.S. in Agriculture, I am committed 
to the success of this industry and believe future of agriculture 
depends on the decisions made today.       
	Please immediately enact regulations 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,

Josh Gatewood
Cargill, Inc.
Cincinati, OH
josh_gatewood@cargill.com