National Beef Packing Co: Annual Profits Down 53% On BSE
KANSAS CITY - National Beef Packing Co. LLC, the nation's fourth-largest beef processor, on Wednesday said annual profits dropped 53% this year, blaming continued fallout from the mad cow scare. For the fiscal year ending Aug. 27, the Kansas...

US makes move to fully open border in 2006 to pre-BSE standards
US - While no target date has been set, the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans on lifting the remaining restrictions on Canadian cattle over-30-months within a year, restoring trade to the way it was pre-BSE. USDA administrator Ron Dehaven...

USDA to prolong expanded BSE testing program
US - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans to keep its expanded testing program for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) going indefinitely instead of scaling it back at the end of this year, according to recent reports. Source:...

Report faults testing of feed to prevent mad cow disease
US - The government started testing livestock feed two years ago to ensure that mills were following rules to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, but officials failed to properly follow up on suspect samples, congressional investigators say....

Report finds flaws in mad cow disease-related testing
US - Government investigators say testing is too slow at times to prevent cattle from eating feed that might be contaminated, just one flaw they cited in a program to help stop mad cow disease from spreading. Feed safeguards are the most important...

US meat processor expects Japan business
US - Following the Japan Food Commission approval of a report on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) disease Wednesday, U.S. cattle leaders are staying cautiously optimistic about trade resumption. Meanwhile, at least one meatpacker will...

Cattlemen’s Capitol Concerns: Sanctions On Japan, BSE Surveillance
US - Senate Bill Calls for Sanctions on Japan: Senators Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) introduced bipartisan legislation October 26 calling for tariffs on Japanese products if Japan fails to reopen its market to U.S. beef. The...

Korea May Soon Be Importing U.S. Beef Again
US - Korea will decide between the end of this month and early November on whether to resume U.S. beef imports now that Seoul has received its requested information, a government official said, according the Korea Herald newspaper. "The...

USDA's Johanns And USTR Portman Welcome Lifting Of Beef Ban By Thailand
US - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns and U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman welcomed Thailand's decision to lift its ban on most imports of U.S. beef. "I commend Thailand officials for reopening their market to U.S. beef and...

Mad cow type diseases may spread in urine-study
WASHINGTON - The agent that causes mad cow disease, scrapie and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk may sometimes be spread through urine, Swiss researchers reported on Thursday. Source: Reuters

FDA Proposes New Mad Cow Safeguards
US - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a change in its animal feed regulations that would prohibit the use of certain high-risk cattle materials in the food or feed of all animals. The proposed measures are intended to further protect...

Regulations on mad cow unsatisfactory
US - The available scientific evidence justifies the conclusion that the risk of contracting mad cow disease from U.S. beef is extremely low.

FDA Proposes New Mad Cow Safeguards
US - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a change in its animal feed regulations that would prohibit the use of certain high-risk cattle materials in the food or feed of all animals. The proposed measures are intended to further...

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 state....

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...