Recall Authority and Mad Cow Disease: Is the Current System Good for Californians?
Tuesday, February 24, 2004

JOINT HEARING

AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AND SELECT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT - MACHADO, ORTIZ, and SPEIER, Chairs
 
Selected excerpts:
Opening Statement by Senator Michael Machado
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Elisa Odibashian - Consumers Union
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Anthony Iton - Alemeda County Health
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USDA's "memorandum of understanding"
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Dave Louthan - Killed the Mad Cow
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Dennis Laycraft - Canadian Cattlemen's Association
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Stanley Prusiner - Discoverer of Prions
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Steven DeArmond - Professor of Neuropathology
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Entire 5 hour hearing - The California Channel
(scroll down to "022404 Senate Info-Hearing")

Related:

Beef recall secrecy fought - Under fire, state health officials are trying to get the USDA to change rule
Sacramento Bee - 02/25/04

Mad cow censoring gets legislators' goat - Tainted-meat trail kept from public by deal with feds
San Francisco Chronicle - 02/25/04

www.maddeer.org