U.S. answers Japan's questions on beef shipment report
JAPAN - The United States has sent to Japan an e-mail answering Japan's questions about an earlier U.S. government report on a U.S. beef shipment in January that contained banned mad cow disease risk material, agriculture ministry officials said Sunday....

U.S. still unable to track diseased livestock
WASHINGTON — Investigators may never figure out where the Alabama cow with mad-cow disease was born and raised, in part because the United States lacks a livestock-tracking system the Bush administration promised two years ago. Source: Seattle...

Rice urges Japan to reconsider ban on US beef
US - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday asked Japan to reconsider its embargo on US beef due to its concerns about mad cow disease, her spokesman said. Source: Forbes

US Likely To Test Offspring Calf Of BSE Cow For Disease
US - The USDA confirmed Monday this week the Alabama cow was the third case of BSE found in the U.S. The cow was exhumed Thursday from where the owner had buried it on an Alabama farm so that government officials could re-examine the animal's teeth...

2nd USDA Confirmatory Test Results Positive for BSE
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced that the second of two bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) confirmatory tests conducted on an Alabama cow has returned a positive...

BSE confirmed in cow raised for food in Japan
JAPAN - Japanese officials have confirmed the country's first case of mad cow disease in cattle specifically raised to provide meat. A 14-year-old female cow among cattle bred for beef in the southern prefecture (state) of Nagasaki was confirmed to...

Mad-Cow Feed Rules Should Ban Poultry Feces, U.S. Senator Says
US - Poultry feces should be banned from cattle feed under rules to be revised this year because the waste may contain traces of mad cow disease, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin told U.S. regulators. The practice of feeding cattle parts to poultry and then...

New U.S. Case of Mad Cow Could Halt Imports
US - Korea may have to halt the resumption of beef imports from the U.S. after the U.S. Agriculture Department announced on Monday that a cow at an Alabama farm tested positive for mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The department's...

BSE news to have little impact on U.S. cattle market, analysts say
US - Because of other negative fundamentals already in play, the U.S. cattle market will feel very little impact from the USDA's announcement of a confirmed BSE case, market analysts told Agriculture Online on Monday. Jeff Stolle, Nebraska Cattlemen's...

Asia sees little impact from 3rd US mad cow case
ASIA - Japan and South Korea said the discovery of a third case of mad cow disease in the U.S. would have no impact on plans to resume U.S. beef imports, easing pressure as Washington negotiates with its former top markets to have a ban lifted. Japanese...

Seoul to reconsider imports of US beef if mad cow case confirmed
South Korea may again ban imports of US beef if tests confirm a suspected mad cow case in the United States reported over the weekend, a South Korean government official said today. Source: English.eastday.com

U.S. works to reassure Japan, other countries amid suspect case of mad cow disease
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is trying to reassure Japan and other foreign customers of American beef while awaiting further tests on a suspected case of mad cow disease. Source: HoustonChronicle.com

U.S. May Have New Mad Cow Case
The Agriculture Department is investigating a possible case of mad cow disease, the agency's chief veterinarian said Saturday. A routine test indicated the possible presence of mad cow disease, said John Clifford, the USDA official. They agency would...

Statement Regarding Inconclusive BSE Test Results
WASHINGTON - Statement by Chief Veterinary Medical Officer John Clifford Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Regarding Inconclusive BSE Test Results, March 11, 2006. Source: USDA

British Beef Back On Sale
UK - Cumbria farmers have welcomed the lifting of the 10-year ban on British beef exports. The embargo is set to be lifted next month after a committee of European vets ruled BSE has dropped to safe levels in British cattle. Trevor Wilson, of Low Bankside...

British beef is clear for export
IRELAND - Ten years after the height of the mad cow crisis, British beef was finally cleared for export to Ireland and the rest of the EU last night. EU veterinary experts first imposed the ban when BSE was discovered in the British national herd, leading...

UK beef export ban lifted by EU
UK - A worldwide ban on British beef exports has been lifted by the EU - 10 years after it was introduced to prevent the spread of mad cow disease. The trade was worth £675m a year to British farmers, but live exports had also sparked animal rights...

Two new BSE cases in Republic
The Irish Department of Agriculture is confirming two new cases of BSE this week. Source: UTV Internet

Cattlemen's Capitol Concerns: Japan Trade Update; BSE Surveillance
USDA's Enhanced BSE Surveillance Program continues having already tested over half million high-risk animals for BSE since June 1, 2004. As of today, the program has tested 627,769 targeted animals at highest risk for BSE and has found only...

British tests clear Croatian mad cow case
CROATIA - Additional tests on samples of a Croatian cow that initially tested positive for madcow disease have proved negative.