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BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)
BSE Sanctions Costing U.S. Billions
The sanctions that countries around the world placed on U.S. beef following the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the cattle herd in 2003 -- despite being inconsistent with international standards -- cost U.S. cattle ranchers and beef processors billions of dollars in export losses. ...
Experts Note Progress Against BSE Disease
Overreliance on meaningless testing and a lack of focus on documenting the effectiveness of steps that are making significant inroads against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are hindering a hungry world’s access to protein, driving up food costs and harming local economies as well as the U.S. beef industry...
New Technology Detects Prions for Improved Food Safety
Scientists have created a new device that may provide a faster, easier and more reliable way to test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)....
15 for Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) last month confirmed another case of BSE in a six-year-old beef cow in Alberta. The infected cow, detected...
Italy Reports BSE Case
In a recent article on Reuters, Italy announced its first BSE case in two years...
Jury Still Out in U.K. on BSE-Human Connection
For 12 years, the United Kingdom has been in a media frenzy about a connection between BSE and humans. ...
Slow Pacific-Rim Progress Begs The Question, "Why?"
This week, it was announced that Japan had agreed to discontinue inspections of entire meat shipments from the U.S. Both sides also agreed to speed up and facilitate Japan's inspection of U.S. plants to make implementation follow more quickly...
Korean FTA Is A Critical Crossroads
Get ready to add a new acronym to your vocabulary -- KORUS FTA -- the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. On April 1, at the last possible moment, the U.S. and South Korea reached agreement...
From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
