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Researcher's Link Cow's Milk To Crohn's Disease

 

We at MAP-Canada would like to dedicate this site to Doctor Rod Chiodini (U.S.A.) and Doctor John Hermon-Taylor of the U.K.

Dr Rod Chiodini (Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) and Prof. John Hermon-Taylor (St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK) are two of the most prominent proponents of an association between M. paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease. Indeed it was Chiodini and his co-workers who, in 1984, successfully cultured the first two strains of M. paratuberculosis in the USA from patients with Crohn's disease. Since then this organism has been sporadically cultured from humans with Crohn's disease and a total of 10 isolates of M. paratuberculosis had been cultured from patients with Crohn's disease in the USA, Australia, the Netherlands and France (Chiodini, 1989).http://www.catcha.com.sg/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?url=http://www.ifst.org/hottop23.htm

 

NEWS BULLETIN, Voluntary Johne’s control coming

The program will in place likely by January, with a testing protocol being created by, Frances Anderson, Ontario Dairy Farmer magazine

A voluntary, nation-wide program to identify and control Johne’s in dairy and beef cattle could be in place as early as January 2003, Gord Coukell told Ontario milk producers at their fall policy conference

 

NEWS BULLETIN: Health Canada to urge more irradiation of food

CTV News Staff Health Canada is set to urge Ottawa to extend the use of foodirradiation -- the controversial food safety technique that zaps bacteria in food with radiation. Proponents say the process can prevent health crises like mass E. coli outbreaks, but critics fear it may harm human health. Canada irradiates wheat andsome seeds, but Health Canada wants to extend the technique to meat and poultry.

 

NEWS BULLETIN: Thursday, November 21, 2002 Scientists Crack Genome Sequence Of Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis. Please follow the link below.

http://www.johnes.org/

 

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA SYMPOSIUM

A MAP FOR CROHN'S DISEASE, Sponsered by The University of Ottawa, Maunco, Health Canada, The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada and Doctor Moe Goldner, President of The Stanier Institute.

Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) and Crohn's Disease: Is there evidence for causation?

This was the first symposium in a series to be presented by the Centre for Research on Environmental Microbiology (CREM). CREM's Director, Dr. Syed A. Sattar was on hand to introduce the speakers and to answer any questions on CREM. This symposiuml presented the latest evidence on the involvement of MAP in Crohn's disease. Dr. Hermon-Taylor summarized his latest findings. Dr. Roger Pickup (Centre of Ecology and Hydrology, Cumbria, UK) explored the environmental linkages and the ecology of the organism. Dr. Behr (McGill University) gave a uniquely Canadian perspective on Crohn's, and Dr. Bill Cameron (University of Ottawa) will wrap up the symposium with a more general talk on causation in diseases of unknown etiology. A panel discussion and question-answer period will follow.

 

Health Canada, Division of Foodborne and Enteric Disease Collaborative projects for 1996/97

Distribution of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in milk Objective: To assess the potential of milk as a source of human Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection.

September 2, 2002, Health Canada: Research Investment Project Areas With Research as a Priority

 

CTV NEWS UPDATE: Re September 3rd and 4th, 2001, article below.
La Presse: Never in My Milk, published April 8, 2001 by Marie FranceCoutu

La Presse: Jamais dans mon lait? (en francais).

 

We at MAP-Canada would like to dedicate this site to Doctor Rod Chiodini (U.S.A.) and Doctor John Hermon-Taylor of the U.K.

Dr Rod Chiodini (Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) and Prof. John Hermon-Taylor (St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK) are two of the most prominent proponents of an association between M. paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease. Indeed it was Chiodini and his co-workers who, in 1984, successfully cultured the first two strains of M. paratuberculosis in the USA from patients with Crohn's disease. Since then this organism has been sporadically cultured from humans with Crohn's disease and a total of 10 isolates of M. paratuberculosis had been cultured from patients with Crohn's disease in the USA, Australia, the Netherlands and France (Chiodini, 1989).http://www.catcha.com.sg/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?url=http://www.ifst.org/hottop23.htm

 

Join Us In Our Fight with the Canadian Government to add Johne's disease in cattle to their of Reportable Diseases List in order to eliminate this bacterium from the Canadian Food Chain.

Researchers in many parts of the world have found a link between Crohn's disease in humans and Johne's disease in cattle. This bacterium is called MAP (Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis). This bacterium has been found in the breast milk of breastfeeding mothers with Crohns.  It has been found in the resected tissues of the intestinal tract of Crohn's sufferers. This evidence gives the Canadian Government an obligation to study this bacterium further, until sufficient evidence either disproves this link or positively proves this bacterium, and possibly other factors contribute to the cause of Crohn's disease.

A Canadian Perspective on the Precautionary Approach/Principle Towards the beginning of 2000, the Government began work on a federal initiative to discuss the application of the precautionary approach/principle in science-based regulatory programs. This initiative is in line with the Government's objective of strengthening risk management practices across the federal public service. The precautionary approach / precautionary principle is distinctive within science-based risk management. It recognizes that the absence of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason to postpone decisions when faced with the threat of serious or irreversible harm. However, guidance and assurance are required as to the conditions governing the decisions that will be made. Guidance and assurance are particularly needed when a decision must be made regarding a risk of serious or irreversible harm about which there is significant scientific uncertainty. The precautionary approach / precautionary principle primarily affects the development of options and the decision phases, and is ultimately guided by judgement, based on values and priorities. Indeed, Canada has a long-standing history of implementing the precautionary approach in science-based programs of health and safety, environmental protection and natural resources conservation.

In addition, is the Canadian Pasteurization process efficient enough to kill this bacterium, if it is in our milk?  Many renowned doctors and scientists in the field of Crohn's and Johne's (yo-neez) from all over the world say we have cause for concern.
How about our water, is this bacterium in our water?

Once again, the Canadian Government has not tested our Pasteurization Process for milk to assure Canadians that our milk is free from MAP, Mycobacterium Avium Paratuberculosis. WHY?In the United Kingdom researcher's have found the MAP bacterium in a percentage of pasteurized milk at the retail level.

Incidence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Bulk Raw and Commercially Pasteurized Cows' Milk from Approved Dairy Processing Establishments in the United Kingdom Applied and Environmental Biology May 2002

Research Received from Doctor John Hermon-Taylor **Please download Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 to read the files below, please go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Effect of Commercial-Scale High-Temperature, Short-Time Pasteurization on the Viability of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in Naturally Infected Cows’ Milk:APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, Feb. 2002, p. 602–607 Vol. 68, No. 2 0099-2240/02/$04.00
0 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.2.602–607.2002 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.2606/pdf

Identification of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Biopsy Specimens from Patients with Crohn’s Disease Identified by In Situ Hybridization. sechi.pdfJOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, 0095-1137/01/$04.00
0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4514–4517.2001 Dec. 2001, p. 4514–4517 Vol. 39, No. 12 Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. NOTES

Treatment with drugs active against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis can heal Crohn’s disease: more evidence for a neglected Public Health tragedy J. Hermon-Taylor,DIGEST LIVER DIS 2002;34:9-12 Italcomm .pdf

Crohn's disease caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis: a public health tragedy whose resolution is long overdue.J. Med. Microbiol. - Vol. 51 (2002), 3-6 2002 Society for General Microbiology ISSN 0022-2615 EDITORIAL jmedmicro2002.pdf

Incidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in bulk-tank milk samples from different regions in Switzerland electrophoresis of KR products obtained fror different bulk-tank mil samples following the nested IS900 PCR. Lane M 100 by molecular weight ladder (Roche Diagnostics), Lanes 1, and 4 Positive samples with a specific amplification product 298 bp, Lane 3 Negativ sample, +Ko Positive.Swiss.Map.pdf

 

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