Based on former work describing the prevalent use and misuse of antibiotics in cattle in the Far North Region of Cameroon, we designed a study to detect antibiotic (penicillin G and oxytetracycline) in beef sold for human consumption in Maroua (Cameroon).
The cut of meat, called "pizzle," was apparently labeled as "inedible beef, not intended for human consumption," before the store's manager repackaged it and put it out on the shelf.
This young female was suckled until the death of the mother and was then fed exclusively, at Peaugres as well as in La Palmyre zoo, with freshly-killed rabbits and hens or with beef (minced steak fit for human consumption).
The occurrence of the second case reported here is of great interest since for this female cheetah the meat source was exclusively from rabbits and hens freshly killed or beef (minced steak fit for human consumption), every effort being made to avoid any possible risk of oral contamination with the BSE agent.
In a large Australian purebred-crossbreeding study from the Cooperative Research Centre for Cattle and Beef Quality, Newman et al. (2002) found that progeny from Belmont Red sires produced carcasses with the lowest sub-cutaneous fat and highest retail beef yield, desirable traits for human consumption.
Similarly, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) has declared E. coli O157 H7 in raw ground beef to be an adulterant and therefore unfit for human consumption.
Beef brains and lower intestines are not routinely sold for human consumption, but they are ground up for use in feed for other animals.
Once Beef Products settled on a method of processing the beef trimmings that allowed them to be deemed fit for human consumption, it turned its focus to lobbying.
Animal feed is a broad term that, for animals produced for human consumption (e.g., dairy and beef cattle, hogs, layer hens, broiler chickens, turkeys), includes a diet that is specific to an animal's species, age, and production stage, and may vary according to time of year and plant species grown (Forbes 2007).
The French government banned sales of beef parts susceptible to the disease, like brains and spinal cords, for human consumption in 1996.
