<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b74b027c-ce0e-484f-bf64-342ca3bd1a87/DA7D9F7B-ACB3-4A4A-B61B-EC653C705692/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gelatin&oldid=165511657" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gelatin&oldid=165511657" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gelatin&oldid=165511657"><P>Due to <A title="Bovine spongiform encephalopathy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy">Bovine spongiform encephalopathy</A> (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease", and its link to <A title="VCJD" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCJD">new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease</A> (vCJD), there has been much concern about using gelatin derived from possibly infected animal parts.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-1"><A title="" href="#_note-1">[10]</A></SUP> One study released in 2004, however, demonstrated that the gelatin production process destroys most of the BSE <A title="Prion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion">prions</A> that may be present in the raw material.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-grobben_0"><A title="" href="#_note-grobben">[11]</A></SUP> However, more detailed recent studies regarding the safety of gelatin in respect to <A title="Mad cow disease" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_cow_disease">mad cow disease</A> have prompted the U.S. <A title="Food and Drug Administration" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration">Food and Drug Administration</A> to re-issue a warning and stricter guidelines for <A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/industry/guidance/gelguide.htm" class="external text" href="http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/industry/guidance/gelguide.htm">the sourcing and processing of gelatin to reduce the potential risk posed by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy</A> from 1997.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA7D9F7B-ACB3-4A4A-B61B-EC653C705692/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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