Roundtable focuses on BSE testing, animal ID
US - The fact that not one American cow has tested positive for BSE under USDA’s enhanced surveillance program is a large plus as producers look to regain lost markets. In fact, with a majority of cattle in USDA’s “high-risk category” for BSE...

Battery of tests set for U.S. mad cow case
US - An animal suspected of mad cow disease will be retested by U.S. and British scientists with a variety of procedures and DNA sequencing to determine if it was infected, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday. Source: Reuters

Suspect US Animal may have Rare Mad Cow Strain
US - A rare and puzzling form of mad cow disease that some believe arises spontaneously may have afflicted the US animal that tested positive for the ailment last week, a senior Agriculture Department scientist told Reuters. The USDA has sent a sample...

Further Analysis of BSE Test Results in England, Statement By Dr. John Clifford, USDA
US - "Today, an official with USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratory departed for Weybridge, England, hand-carrying samples for further testing. "USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been consulting with officials at...

Roundtable focuses on BSE testing, animal ID
US - The fact that not one American cow has tested positive for BSE under USDA’s enhanced surveillance program is a large plus as producers look to regain lost markets. In fact, with a majority of cattle in USDA’s “high-risk category” for BSE...

Battery of tests set for U.S. mad cow case
US - An animal suspected of mad cow disease will be retested by U.S. and British scientists with a variety of procedures and DNA sequencing to determine if it was infected, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Thursday. Source: Reuters

Suspect US Animal may have Rare Mad Cow Strain
US - A rare and puzzling form of mad cow disease that some believe arises spontaneously may have afflicted the US animal that tested positive for the ailment last week, a senior Agriculture Department scientist told Reuters. The USDA has sent a sample...

Further Analysis of BSE Test Results in England, Statement By Dr. John Clifford, USDA
US - "Today, an official with USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratory departed for Weybridge, England, hand-carrying samples for further testing. "USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been consulting with officials at...

Potential BSE case found in US
US - The US beef industry is waiting with baited breath while the Department of Agriculture (USDA) retests a sample suspected of being from a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The retesting highlights a problem with different...

Potential BSE case found in US
US - The US beef industry is waiting with baited breath while the Department of Agriculture (USDA) retests a sample suspected of being from a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The retesting highlights a problem with different...

USDA Ignores Over 60 Scientific Recommendations
US - The real crisis in the cattle and beef industries is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) continued efforts to lower safety standards and potentially allow the spread of mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from...

Cattle Producers Anxiously Await Mad Cow Test Results
US - Cattle producers anxiously await test results on another suspected case of mad cow disease in the United States, this time involving an animal possibly from Texas. U.S. Agriculture Department officials announced late last week that test results...

USDA Ignores Over 60 Scientific Recommendations
US - The real crisis in the cattle and beef industries is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) continued efforts to lower safety standards and potentially allow the spread of mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from...

Cattle Producers Anxiously Await Mad Cow Test Results
US - Cattle producers anxiously await test results on another suspected case of mad cow disease in the United States, this time involving an animal possibly from Texas. U.S. Agriculture Department officials announced late last week that test results...

US ‘rediscovers’ its second mad cow
US - The US has found its second case of mad cow disease in a cow suspected, but cleared, of having BSE in November 2004. Although meat from the cow did not enter the food chain, the finding calls into question the accuracy of the country’s BSE surveillance...

US ‘rediscovers’ its second mad cow
US - The US has found its second case of mad cow disease in a cow suspected, but cleared, of having BSE in November 2004. Although meat from the cow did not enter the food chain, the finding calls into question the accuracy of the country’s BSE surveillance...

US Mad cow test results may take two weeks
USDA - The U.S. Agriculture Department may need up to two weeks to determine if a suspect older animal was infected with mad cow disease, the department's chief veterinarian told Reuters on Saturday. John Clifford, the USDA's top veterinarian, said...

US checking possible mad-cow-disease case
WASHINGTON - The government is checking a possible case of mad-cow disease in the United States in an animal previously cleared of being infected, the Agriculture Department said yesterday. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said more tests were needed...

US Mad cow test results may take two weeks
USDA - The U.S. Agriculture Department may need up to two weeks to determine if a suspect older animal was infected with mad cow disease, the department's chief veterinarian told Reuters on Saturday. John Clifford, the USDA's top veterinarian, said...

US checking possible mad-cow-disease case
WASHINGTON - The government is checking a possible case of mad-cow disease in the United States in an animal previously cleared of being infected, the Agriculture Department said yesterday. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said more tests were needed...