Even Heathly Cattle to be Tested for BSE
US - USDA announced its plan to test approximately 20,000 healthy but older cattle for the brain-destroying disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy. In late 2003, the United States reported its first case of the disease in a cow in Washington...

US Senators Ask Trade Rep To Retaliate For Japan 's Beef Ban
US - In a show of frustration and anger, 20 U.S. senators on Thursday formally asked U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman "to employ retaliatory economic measures against Japan." U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and 19 others who signed a letter, lamented...

US Senators Ask Trade Rep To Retaliate For Japan 's Beef Ban
US - In a show of frustration and anger, 20 U.S. senators on Thursday formally asked U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman "to employ retaliatory economic measures against Japan." U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and 19 others who signed...

State vet likes plan to close BSE loophole
US - The new federal proposal to ban cattle brains and spinal columns from feed for other animals would close a small loophole in the already solid barrier against mad cow disease, according to South Dakota state veterinarian Sam Holland. The U.S. Food...

State vet likes plan to close BSE loophole
US - The new federal proposal to ban cattle brains and spinal columns from feed for other animals would close a small loophole in the already solid barrier against mad cow disease, according to South Dakota state veterinarian Sam Holland. The...

Ranchers have beef with Japan
US - Colorado beef producers don’t want to buy Japan’s if Japan won’t buy ours. That’s why an association of beef ranchers is furious the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed to lift its four-year ban on Japanese beef cattle before Japan...

Ranchers have beef with Japan
US - Colorado beef producers don’t want to buy Japan’s if Japan won’t buy ours. That’s why an association of beef ranchers is furious the U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed to lift its four-year ban on Japanese...

FDA to add new BSE-related feed rules soon
US - The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week the agency will soon align its rules on animal feed more closely with those in Canada and Europe, signaling a likelihood of new restrictions to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform...

FDA to add new BSE-related feed rules soon
US - The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week the agency will soon align its rules on animal feed more closely with those in Canada and Europe, signaling a likelihood of new restrictions to prevent the spread of bovine...

Senate Votes to Ban Japan Beef Imports
US - Kobe beef should stay off U.S. menus if Japan won't buy American beef, the Senate has decided.

Senate Votes to Ban Japan Beef Imports
US - Kobe beef should stay off U.S. menus if Japan won‘t buy American beef, the Senate has decided. In June, U.S. authorities confirmed a second domestic case in a Texas-born cow. Japan, in contrast, has found 20 cases of mad cow disease....

Cows more exposed to BSE in US than Japan, says panel chief
US - Cows in the United States are more exposed to mad cow disease than those in Japan due partly to insufficient regulations on the use of feed, the head of an expert panel on the disease said Monday. Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, who heads the prion research...

Cows more exposed to BSE in US than Japan, says panel chief
US - Cows in the United States are more exposed to mad cow disease than those in Japan due partly to insufficient regulations on the use of feed, the head of an expert panel on the disease said Monday. Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, who heads the prion...

Revised BSE rule allows part of cattle intestine in food
US - Meat companies are again free to use most of the small intestine of cattle to make sausage casings, following a change in a federal rule intended to protect people from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Source:...

Revised BSE rule allows part of cattle intestine in food
US - Meat companies are again free to use most of the small intestine of cattle to make sausage casings, following a change in a federal rule intended to protect people from exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease....

Second BSE Cow Not Likely To Impact Beef Demand Negatively
US - Beef exports for January-April were up 161.6% from a year earlier but the 2005 tonnage is still 77.3% below the first 4 months of 2003. The cow that was retested for BSE came back positive. She was 12 years old and spent her life on one farm in...

Second BSE Cow Not Likely To Impact Beef Demand Negatively
US - Beef exports for January-April were up 161.6% from a year earlier but the 2005 tonnage is still 77.3% below the first 4 months of 2003. The cow that was retested for BSE came back positive. She was 12 years old and spent her life on one...

Government ends probe of first U.S. mad cow case
WASHINGTON - The government closed its investigation into the nation's first domestic case of mad cow disease Tuesday, saying it could not pin down how a Texas cow was infected with the brain-wasting ailment. Source: Southeast Texas Live

Consumers Union Wants More Data on Mad Cow Testing
US - Consumers Union is raising questions about the credibility of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) expanded voluntary mad-cow surveillance program and is asking the agency to release details on the more than 400,000 cattle tested. Source:...

Mad cow opens door to grassfed beef
US - The predictable re-emergence of mad cow disease on American shores brings to mind the Mandarin Chinese word for crisis -- a combination of the ideograms for danger as well as opportunity. The danger is obvious and growing, as mathematical probability...