June 26, 2009 Link to full article below
Researchers are suggesting new reasons that support the importance of accurate and comprehensible labeling when it comes to seafood. Scientists from the University of Louisville have now brought into question the safety of eating farmed fish that could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, which is commonly now as Mad Cow Disease.
Although it has not yet been proven that it is possible to transmit the disease to humans through consumption of fish, some farm fished are fed byproducts rendered from cows, leading scientists to believe that a ban of feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish be put into place until the safety of this practice is confirmed.
Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is an untreatable, fatal disease that can be contracted by eating parts of an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease). As the disease has been learned to easily spread within the same species, the feeding of rendered cow material to other cattle has been outlawed in many countries due to an outbreak in England that led to 163 deaths.
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