Many difficult to grow microorganisms require the addition of serum from blood to the growth media. If it's healthy - everything. If it's contracted nvCJD in the process, it's worth less than the Swiss cheese their brain resembles. Asians take velvet, a soft and highly vascular hairy skin that nourishes deer antlers during rapid growth, and use it as an aphrodisiac. Even though all 1,500 of the domestic elk were destroyed, burned and buried, the Korean ban against Canadian velvet remains intact.
Most citizens just assume their government is watching out for their welfare.
Especially when products are ordered off the Internet, it's easy to make the purchase without fully checking ingredients. It may be too much of a bother to email the supplier and check out all the ingredients first . Nutritional supplements using bovine glands such as pituitaries, prostates or kidneys may also include an unwanted ingredient - Mad Cow. These supplements contain hormones which supposedly help organs perform better, boost immune systems or make us feel more energetic, but they may have deadly consequences. Although the FDA says European bovine products should not be imported into this country because of an import alert ban put into effect within the past two years, BSE-infected material may have come in prior to the ban.