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Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous?
November 2 2006 at 7:33 AM Andrea (no login)

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I asked my local health food shop in London and they said they didn't think BO was allowed in the UK. Does this mean it's too dangerous?



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Wild Flower
(Login wild.flower) Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? November 2 2006, 9:09 AM


I think the fact that bovine ovary is not available in the UK is more to do with it being regarded as a transmitter of mad cow disease than it being otherwise dangerous. Since the mad cow outbreak a few years ago, the UK has very strict regulations about bovine products.


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Anonymous
(no login) BIG DIFFERENCE !!! ??? November 20 2006, 11:23 AM


there is supposed to be a BIG difference between bovine ovary and bovine glandular !!!!! glandular is not banned and ovary is and suppossed to be dangerous???? who knows about this please?


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emmie
(Login emmiedee) ovary is banned... November 21 2006, 6:42 PM


where?

i take ovary, not glandular. its gotten from new zealand and sold in the states, and i think people have purchased it off the shelves in i want to say england?

ovary is just as dangerous as eating glandular, if you are talking about mad cow, so i wouldnt see why one would be banned and the other not. but the stuff i take is from new zealand which doesnt have mad cow, so my chances are pretty slim.

i guess it depends on where you are talking about... different countries have different regulations...

hugs and good boobie wishes to all!


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Janet
(no login) Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? November 21 2006, 7:47 PM


The FDA has warned that the following bovine material can transmit the "mad cow" infectious agent: spinal cord, brain, tonsils, thymus, spleen, intestines, liver, kidney, ovaries, mammary tissue, eye tissue.



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Charity
(no login) Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? April 16 2007, 7:47 AM


I don't know why anyone would think that one is banned and the other not. In the UK they are both banned.


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Summer
(Login summer_skye) Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? May 13 2007, 8:12 AM


That's true, in the UK neither bovine ovary nor gladular can be sold or put into the food chain.


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Paula Longstreet
(Login butterfly40) mad cow May 14 2007, 2:36 AM


I think it all depends on the origin of the bovine ovary not the "parts" of the cow.
That's my take on it.
As New Zealand and Argentina are the "safest" places and grass fed cows.
That's where Vitamin Power and DNE and BB ( I beleive) get there bovine from.


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Fawn
(Login fawnmarie) Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? May 23 2007, 2:42 AM


OVARY IS a glandular. As is thymus, orchic (testes), pituitary, etc. The UK has stricter guidelines for the use of bovine glandulars due to the mad cow disease outbreak.

EVEN if it's from organically fed cows from New Zealand.

I don't really blame them, as infected material could be very dangerous. In and of itself it's not dangerous, but they're not taking any risks.



Sally Anne
(Login sally.anne)
SENIOR MEMBER Re: Bovine ovary not available - is it dangerous? May 23 2007, 9:28 AM


That's true, they're not taking any risks. It's understandable, because 160 people have died in the UK from mad cow disease. They're dong everything they can now to stop the deaths, so they wouldn't want to risk adding to it.