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Mad cow sanity.(Scan)(Brief Article)
Consumers seem to be taking the mad cow news in stride. To date, no sales declines are reported from the fast food chains, and some of the premium steak-houses have even increased demand. Perhaps yellow journalism no longer has much effect.
Although news stories about mad cow disease often describe the horrors of the affliction for several paragraphs, David Ropeik of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis points out that the risk of actually contracting the human variant from meat is virtually nonexistent. Extensive and careful scientific studies in Britain and elsewhere have never, ever, found any evidence that eating beef can cause the disease in humans.
If the health threats from mad cow have been oversold, the economic damage has not. Over 30 countries have banned imports of beef from the U.S., and beef prices have dropped 20 percent. Taiwan has banned U.S. beef for seven years. Taiwanese beef producers can celebrate, as will Australians, who will provide the beef that Americans cannot. Many ...
- SCARY FOOD NEWS HAS US EXAGGERATING ACTUAL RISKS REPORTS OF MAD COW, OTHER RARE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Davidow, Julie February 16, 2004 700+ words
...DAVIDOW P-I reporter Mad cow disease rotting holes...contracting the human form of mad cow disease is so remote it...and instinct," said David Ropeik, from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. With mad cow disease, a frightening...
- West Virginia Health Official Says Mad Cow Worries Are Overblown.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 4, 2004 700+ words
...4--If the recent mad cow scare has you worried...state tested positive for mad cow disease. Officials have...that of former journalist David Ropeik, who directs the Center...center studied the risk of mad cow disease in the United...
- Mad cow panic is worse risk.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Ropeik, George Gray David March 13, 2001 700+ words
...risk, whether it's mad cow disease, hazardous waste...much it is doing to keep mad cow disease out, and to minimize...nor last quite as long. Mad cow disease is dreadful...Safety and Agriculture and David Ropeik is director of risk communication...
- Cape Cod, Mass., Residents Not Afraid of Mad Cow.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 7, 2004 700+ words
...possibility of contracting mad cow disease was the furthest...During the week after the mad cow announcement in December...in it," she said. David Ropeik, director of the Harvard...he said. Because a mad cow disease scare already...
- AScribe Advisory: Sources Able to Assist on Mad Cow Disease.
- News wire article from: AScribe Medicine News Service December 24, 2003 700+ words
...national authority on mad cow disease/BSE. He recently...the suspected case of mad cow disease will have an immediate...hurtc@purdue.edu. David Ropeik / Harvard School of Public...center has been studying mad cow disease under a government...
- Food Investigators Seek Origin of Holstein Found to Have Mad Cow Disease.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 25, 2003 700+ words
...was when it contracted mad cow disease about four years...of any person getting mad cow disease was nearly zero...its tracks, spokesman David Ropeik said. Nonetheless, stock...which had a lone case of mad cow disease earlier this year...
- Bullish on risk management.(Mad cow diseases)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Security Management Harowitz, Sherry February 1, 2004 700+ words
...of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease. The incident raises important questions about risk...their reputation and their brand from perception," says David Ropeik of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. "They may be reducing...
- Mad over mad cow.(LETTERS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 4, 2004 700+ words
...Wednesday's story "U.S. will keep mad cow tests that take days" (Nation), the...saying that the more modern rapid tests for mad cow disease used in Europe and Japan are less...have been a problem with earlier tests, mad cow tests are on the market that have tested...
