BYPRODUCTS SAFE, SCIENTISTS SAY.Byline: Associated Press From cosmetics, candy and gelatins to drugs for diabetes, hay fever hay fever, seasonal allergy causing inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and eyes. It is characterized by itching about the eyes and nose, sneezing, a profuse watery nasal discharge, and tearing of the eyes. and arthritis, there are beef parts in dozens of products Americans use every day. Scientists say the ``mad cow disease'' scare enveloping en·vel·op tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops 1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" Europe should affect none of them. ``The public health risk is about as close to zero as you can get,'' Russell Cross, director of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, said Thursday. Worries about the safety of British beef spread beyond just steaks and chops Wednesday when the European Community ordered Britain to stop exporting all beef-derived products including ice cream, candy, cosmetics and drugs. U.S. scientists noted, however, that very few of these products use pieces of the steer's brain and spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. , the only parts of the steer's body where mad cow disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. , or bovine spongiform spongiform /spon·gi·form/ (spun´ji-form) resembling a sponge. spon·gi·form adj. Resembling a sponge, as in appearance or porosity. spongiform resembling a sponge. encepthalopathy, has been found. The most widely used beef product is collagen, the spongy substance derived from beef skin or bones. Collagen is often an ingredient in ice cream, custards, cheeses, candies, sausage casings and cosmetics. It's also used to make drug capsules. |
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