US To Reach Regional BSE Survey Goals By End July
WASHINGTON - -The U.S. Department of Agriculture is on track to reach all of its regional testing goals throughout the U.S. for bovine spongiform encephalopathy by the end of July, a senior U.S. government official said Tuesday. Source: Catt...

Feds want to test former herd mates of infected cow
US - The federal government is looking for some former herd mates of a Texas cow infected with "mad cow" disease, planning to test them for the fatal brain-wasting disease. Source: Sacramento Bee

China works with US to reopen beef trade
WASHINGTON - China has promised to work with the US Department of Agriculture toward reopening its market for American beef, US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said on Monday. China agreed to send a technical team to the United States in October,...

Agriculture Department Lifts Hold From Texas Ranch
US - A hold was removed Monday from the Texas ranch that housed a cow infected with mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Source: The Dallas Morning News

All cows from herd with one mad cow test negative
US - Thirty-eight more cattle from a Texas ranch tested negative for mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported today. The 38 animals were from the same ranch and herd as the Texas beef cow recently confirmed to have mad cow disease....

USDA bungles mad cow case
US - If you've seen grim videos from the British countryside showing a cow in the final stages of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, it's a safe bet you want nothing to do with mad cow disease. The animals can't stay upright, but they continue to try....

USDA culls 29 cattle linked to mad cow animal
US - U.S. animal health officials have tracked down and culled 29 cattle linked to a 12-year-old Texas beef cow infected with mad cow disease, the Agriculture Department said Friday. Since the discovery of the nation's second case of the bovine spongiform...

Panama bans American beef
US - Government officials in Panama have banned the importation of U.S. beef, according to the Associated Press. The development comes after the second case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was confirmed in the U.S. last month. Source: Brow...

Editorial: USDA mishandling mad cow scare
US - Incompetence and deceit are a fatal mix for a government agency trying to win public trust. So when the U.S. Department of Agriculture botched a mad cow test on an infected animal and then delayed a search for the truth, it harmed its reputation...

Cattle markets drift lower as BSE testing progresses
US - Not one, but a half-dozen additional bovine spongiform encephalopathy tests were ordered this past week to look at brain tissue of an older cow that on June 10 retested positive. It’s the first native-born BSE case in the United States. No reports...

US officials don't expect more mad cow cases
US - After the first discovery of mad cow in the United States in 2003, some 700 head of cattle were killed as a precaution. Fears were high that Washington state's cattle market would crater. Federal government experts suggested the industry nationwide...

Mad Cow Proposals Lead to Fight
US - In the wake of confirmation that a U.S.-reared animal had mad cow disease, California cattle ranchers and grocers are battling consumer, health and labor groups over legislation aimed at allaying fears about tainted meat. One lawmaker wants to...

Experts don't expect more cases of Mad Cow
HOUSTON - After the first discovery of mad cow in the United States in 2003, some 700 head of cattle were killed as a precaution. Fears were high that Washington state's cattle market would crater. Federal government experts suggested the industry nationwide...

Experts don't expect more cases of Mad Cow
HOUSTON - After the first discovery of mad cow in the United States in 2003, some 700 head of cattle were killed as a precaution. Fears were high that Washington state's cattle market would crater. Federal government experts suggested the industry nationwide...

McKenna blasts American ranchers group
WASHINGTON - It's "hypocritical in the extreme" for a "very selfish" U.S. ranching group to keep blocking Canadian cattle when Americans now have a homegrown case of mad cow disease, Ambassador Frank McKenna said yesterday.      "The...

Government releases details of infected cow's last days
WASHINGTON - The Texas cow infected with mad cow disease was sold through a livestock market and taken to a slaughterhouse where it was dead on arrival, the Agriculture Department said Friday.      The cow wasn't unloaded or presented...

McKenna blasts American ranchers group
WASHINGTON - It's "hypocritical in the extreme" for a "very selfish" U.S. ranching group to keep blocking Canadian cattle when Americans now have a homegrown case of mad cow disease, Ambassador Frank McKenna said yesterday.      "The...

Government releases details of infected cow's last days
WASHINGTON - The Texas cow infected with mad cow disease was sold through a livestock market and taken to a slaughterhouse where it was dead on arrival, the Agriculture Department said Friday.      The cow wasn't unloaded or presented...

Federal Government Struggles to Ease Concern Over Mad Cow Disease Scares
US - Inside a UC Davis building once firebombed by animal-rights activists, Room 1271 is small and eerily normal, feeling less dramatic than you'd expect at a U.S. mad cow testing facility. Source: The Daily Review

U.S. years away from mad cow trace-back system
WASHINGTON - The government is years away from fielding a system to track down herdmates of cattle diagnosed with mad cow disease, making the United States "a food safety laggard" in the eyes of a consumer group. Source: Reuters