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The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority
The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
Japan will not impose a blanket ban on U.S. beef imports, despite the discovery of a spinal column in a meat shipment from a U.S. processing plant, a government spokesman said Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday that there still is a chance to make progress on eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, urging critics to see what Pyongyang says in a required declaration before deciding whether nations are being too lenient.
President George Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak opened two days of talks Friday focusing on North Korea's unfulfilled pledge to disclose its nuclear activities and a U.S. free-trade deal with South Korea that faces an uphill battle in Congress.
South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports that had been halted over mad cow disease, clearing a key hurdle to a broader trade deal with Washington
South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports that had been halted over mad cow disease, clearing a key hurdle to a broader trade deal with Washington just hours before the countries' leaders were to meet Friday
Hours before a U.S.-South Korean summit, the two nations have reached an agreement that could clear the way for South Korea to resume imports of U.S. beef, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.
Mad cow disease has killed two people since December in the Castilla Leon region north of Madrid, a regional health authority spokeswoman told CNN Monday.
Last weekend's 143 million-pound beef recall -- the largest in U.S. history -- was initiated not simply because cattle that couldn't walk made it into the U.S. food supply, but because they weren't reinspected after becoming immobile.
The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority
The Bush administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease, but a skeptical judge questioned whether the government has that authority.
Japan will not impose a blanket ban on U.S. beef imports, despite the discovery of a spinal column in a meat shipment from a U.S. processing plant, a government spokesman said Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said Saturday that there still is a chance to make progress on eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, urging critics to see what Pyongyang says in a required declaration before deciding whether nations are being too lenient.
President George Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak opened two days of talks Friday focusing on North Korea's unfulfilled pledge to disclose its nuclear activities and a U.S. free-trade deal with South Korea that faces an uphill battle in Congress.
South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports that had been halted over mad cow disease, clearing a key hurdle to a broader trade deal with Washington
South Korea agreed to resume U.S. beef imports that had been halted over mad cow disease, clearing a key hurdle to a broader trade deal with Washington just hours before the countries' leaders were to meet Friday
Hours before a U.S.-South Korean summit, the two nations have reached an agreement that could clear the way for South Korea to resume imports of U.S. beef, a South Korean news agency reported Friday.
Mad cow disease has killed two people since December in the Castilla Leon region north of Madrid, a regional health authority spokeswoman told CNN Monday.
Last weekend's 143 million-pound beef recall -- the largest in U.S. history -- was initiated not simply because cattle that couldn't walk made it into the U.S. food supply, but because they weren't reinspected after becoming immobile.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, cutting short his holiday retreat to deal with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, said on Saturday the government would act decisively and promptly to contain, eradicate and identify the source of the disease.
Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.
The U.S. Agriculture Department on Saturday said it has banned pork and pork products from Britain due to the outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a farm west of London.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease
Canadian health officials said Thursday that tests have confirmed a seventh case of mad cow disease, in a 50-month-old dairy cow from Alberta.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday an agreement has been reached with Japan to restart U.S. beef exports, pending planned inspections of meat-processing plants by Japanese officials, the Nikkei reported.
British beef producers are beginning their long battle to win back European Union customers after a decade-old export ban was officially lifted.
The Canadian government said Sunday that it has confirmed a case of mad-cow disease in a cow in British Columbia.
One of at least two calves born to an Alabama cow with mad cow disease will be tested for evidence of the fatal, brain-wasting disease, the state's agriculture commissioner said Friday.
(CNN Student News) -- Use this explainer to help students understand mad cow disease, a topic relevant to today's news.
Japan has halted the import of U.S. beef after an animal spine was found in a shipment at Tokyo International Airport, sparking new concerns over possible tainted meat less than two months after a previous ban was lifted.
Japan halted the import of U.S. beef Friday after animal spines were found in three boxes of frozen beef at Tokyo International Airport and asked U.S. officials to explain what happened.
The Japanese government will lift its two-year ban on U.S. beef as early as Monday, according to a published report.
Federal health authorities are investigating another possible case of mad cow disease in a U.S. cow, the Department of Agriculture's chief veterinarian said Wednesday.
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The cow confirmed last week to be infected with mad cow disease was 12 years old and lived its entire life in Texas, according to John Clifford, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief veterinarian.
A ranch or a family farm might not immediately come to mind when thinking of terrorist targets. But an attack on U.S. agriculture could cause enormous damage to the economy. And that is the aim of "agroterror."
Montana's Democratic governor thinks it "makes no sense" that the United States can import "cattle, hogs and logs" from Canada -- but not cheaper prescription drugs.
A Japanese man who died in December is believed to be the first person in Japan to die of the human variant of mad cow disease, Japanese Health Ministry officials said.
Canadian officials said Monday their nation's beef supply is not threatened by a dairy cow in Alberta that tested positive for mad cow disease.
President Bush on Wednesday said that the United States and Canada share a special kinship and thanked Canadians for the hospitality they showed thousands of American travelers in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
President Bush dismissed concerns Tuesday about strained ties between the United States and Canada, thanking those Canadians who turned out to wave "with all five fingers" during his first official visit.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating an inconclusive test result for mad cow disease, the agency announced Thursday.
Further testing is being conducted on the carcass of an animal that showed inconclusive results for mad cow disease in initial tests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.
Charlene Singh, the only U.S. resident thought to have the human form of mad cow disease, or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), died Sunday morning.
It's official; Alan Greenspan has pronounced the death of deflation. We have nothing to fear from falling prices. Whew, that's a load off your mind, huh?
Every cow in the United States may someday have a unique ID number.
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New research suggests that the human form of mad cow disease may be transmitted through blood transfusions.
Reopening the export markets for U.S. beef in the wake of the mad cow discovery last month is a "top priority," Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman said Tuesday.
News that Orchid BioSciences was selected to provide DNA testing for a large-scale, Canadian pork traceability program sent the biotech's shares more than 8 percent higher Tuesday.
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Chicken waste, restaurant scraps and blood products are to be banned from cattle feed as part of new measures to protect Americans from mad cow disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Monday.
Best earnings season in a decade. Ho-hum.
Could that burger you're eating have a deadly secret? Or could Fido's dog food bring mad cow disease into your home?
DNA tests verify "with a high degree of certainty" that the cow in Washington state found to have mad cow disease originated from a dairy farm in Alberta, Canada, USDA chief veterinarian Ron DeHaven said Tuesday.
At 24, Charlene should be finishing up her master's degree or taking other steps to plan her future. Instead, she's become a statistic.
U.S. officials this week will kill about 450 bull calves, including the offspring of a dairy cow that tested positive for mad cow disease last month, the Agriculture Department said Monday.
Cattle prices rose Friday for the first time since the first case of deadly mad cow disease was discovered in the United States two weeks ago.
A third U.S. cattle herd in Washington state has been quarantined as a result of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday.
A decade ago, in a publicity stunt to convince the world that mad cow disease couldn't infect humans, British Agriculture Minister John Gummer fed his 4-year-old daughter a hamburger on the steps o...
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