USDA Memos Show Pattern of Ignoring Science on BSE Risks
US - News stories that appeared Tuesday on Dow Jones Newswires and in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal show that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have ignored warnings about food safety and health risks associated with bovine spongiform...

USDA Memos Show Pattern of Ignoring Science on BSE Risks
US - News stories that appeared Tuesday on Dow Jones Newswires and in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal show that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have ignored warnings about food safety and health risks associated with bovine spongiform...

R-CALF: OIE Rule Change Could Undermine Protections Against BSE
US - Last week’s decision by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to replace its five categories of risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) with only three may undermine basic import standards for food safety and public health by...

R-CALF: OIE Rule Change Could Undermine Protections Against BSE
US - Last week’s decision by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) to replace its five categories of risk for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) with only three may undermine basic import standards for food safety and public health by...

Is Mad Cow Disease Caused by a Bacteria?
US - Lead researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer MD isn't satisfied with the current explanation for mad cow disease. "Current mad cow diagnosis", said Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, "lies solely in the detection of late appearing "prions", an acronym for hypothesized,...

Economic impact of BSE still playing out, says economist
US - Two years after the North American beef industry was rocked by BSE's arrival, the economic impact continues to play out, University of Nebraska-Lincoln specialists say. The discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a cow in Canada in May...

USDA applauds OIE's approach to BSE
WASHINGTON - "I applaud the leadership of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in modernizing the international approach to the safe trade of beef products by updating the BSE guidelines to reflect current science. "The United States and several...

Japan seeks OK to resume U.S. beef trade
US - The Japanese government took a big step on Tuesday toward reopening Japan to U.S. beef by asking the national food safety agency to ease a ban imposed 17 months ago after the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S. herd. Source: ABC NEWS...

Mad cow disease is dividing US, Canada cattle ranchers
US - On opposite sides of the Rocky Mountains, two men on horseback roam the grassy prairie each day, checking the cattle on their ranches. Until two years ago, Hugh Lynch-Staunton in Alberta and Jim Baker in Hot Springs, Montana, were kindred souls...

Border ban also hurts U.S. meat processors
US - It's well known the Canadian cattle industry has been taking a licking since the U.S. closed its border to our beef, but how have things been going in the land of the Stars and Stripes? According to one American economist, 5,000 Americans have...

U.S. Supports Change in BSE Guidelines
US - The U.S. government has decided to support a World Organization for Animal Health proposal to approve worldwide trade in almost all boneless muscle cuts of beef even if there is a risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease in the...

US beef industry could face ‘permanent damage’
US - Mike Johanns, US agriculture secretary, warned on Tuesday that the US beef industry faced the prospect of "permanent damage" if imports of live cattle across the US-Canadian border continued to be blocked. His comments are a sign of the increasing...

USDA announces BSE roundtable discussion
WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will hold a roundtable discussion on June 9 regarding the safety of North American beef and the changing infrastructure of the industry. Johanns...

Northwestern U.S. has higher risk of mad cow exposure, report says
WASHINGTON -- There is still a risk, though slight, of mad cow disease in the United States, and it is greatest in the three Northwestern states bordering Canada, according to Agriculture Department investigators. The investigators, after tracing the...

US, Canada, Mexico agree to harmonize BSE strategy
WASHINGTON — Canada, Mexico and the United States have established a harmonized approach to mitigate the risk of BSE. The new agreement is the outcome of a series of meetings that aimed to allow the chief veterinary officers of the countries to develop...

Study shows voluntary testing for mad cow would aid industry
US - The discovery of mad cow disease in the United States cost the beef industry between $3.2 billion and $4.7 billion in losses last year, according to an economic impact study. The report, commissioned by the Kansas Department of Agriculture, also...

DeLauro Renews Call for a National BSE Testing Program
US - the Washington Insider reported that Rep. Rose DeLauro, D-Conn., renewed her call for a national BSE testing program following the release of a Kansas State University study showing that the beef industry could have recovered some of the billions...

BSE restrictions drag down Tyson's performance
US - Higher prices and lower grain costs largely offset down volumes in Tyson Foods’ meat lines, but ongoing BSE restrictions have helped drag down the company's bottom line. The company said that it earned $76 million in the fiscal second quarter,...

US cattle group attacks Canada BSE testing rate
US - The number of Canadian cattle being tested for BSE per month has substantially decreased, claims a US cattle group demanding restrictions on beef imports from Canada, writes Anthony Fletcher. “Reports by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)...

USDA Releases Epidemiological Summary on Canadian BSE Cases
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today released a summary of its epidemiological review of Canada’s bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases. Source: USDA APHIS