Global Body Lifts Age Limit on Beef Trade with Respect to BSE
GENERAL - The World Organization for Animal Health adopted a resolution Friday lifting cattle age limits for beef exports and imports with regard to mad cow disease, a move likely to strengthen U.S. pressure on Japan to import beef from older cattle.

Novel Approach to Detecting BSE Contamination
GENERAL - The dissemination of prohibited species-specific central nervous system (CNS) tissue contamination in meat must be tracked to mitigate human health risk associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.