the first crazy cat

ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters) - the fear of the consumers and the preoccupations before possible demands were lowered on the multimillionaire Swiss food industry for animals, after the first case of ?the disease of the crazy cat? was registered, said an analyst yesterday.

The office of veterinary medicine of Switzerland informed Tuesday that it had to sacrifice a cat of six years after to have developed a disease related to badly of the crazy cows, probably after ingesting infected food of cat or meat badly cooked.

Analysts of the nourishing sector showed their preoccupation by the impact that this case could have in the food industry for animals and the threats of judicial demands.

?I do not believe that it is the good news. I do not believe either that there is a direct hit on the producers, but is not something positive?, said to Robert Jan Vos, nourishing analyst of the company/signature ING. Barings, in Amsterdam, Holland.

The Swiss food association for animals said to Reuters that the cat could not have contracted the disease to eat what the local branches produce, including a Effems, a unit of the American giant Nestle.

Nestle, that is acquiring companía American of foods for animals Ralston Purina, by 10,300 million dollars, clarified that all their products came from materials that could be ingested by human beings. But several analysts said that the news of the first case of feline espongiforme encefalopatía in Swiss was worrisome.

?There is risk of demands, but they will be few. Also it will be difficult to prove that the food for animals caused the death of the cat?, said Vos.

?It can be a problem for the industry, but the demands in Switzerland are not like in the United States?, said Patrick Hasenboehler, analyst of the Sarasin Bank. Although Swiss the weave use of the brain and the bony marrow prohibited in 1996, as well as of died cats and dogs, in foods elaborated in the country for domestic felines, it did not prevent the product export with these ingredients until 1998.

Source: www.rionegro.com.ar

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