The United States government has told GlobalMeatNews that there should be no reason why countries should ban its beef imports following the discovery of its first bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) case in six years, in California.
By Kent D. Messer, Harry H. Kaiser, Collin Payne and Brian Wansink
Advertising could play an important role in reducing consumer fears
when a product is linked to food safety concerns, write a team of
economists and psychologists at Cornell University.
Ken Conrad, a farmer who has been farming organically since 1982,
believes that misinformation about the true nature of Mad Cow
Disease continues to cost the global meat industry millions.
Anthony Fletcher reports.
Japan may be about to review its policy of testing all slaughtered
cattle for mad cow disease, a practice Tokyo has asked Washington
to adopt as a condition for resuming US beef imports. This is
encouraging news for US meat processors,...
Lawmakers in the US have proposed a mandatory livestock
identification system to combat outbreaks of food borne disease
such as mad cow or foot and mouth disease. The system would work by
keeping track of herd movements and being...
Ways for industry to avoid losing billions of euros and dollars
through mad cow disease could find their solutions in maths and
physics, claim researchers at the University of
California.
Two more cattle herds in Washington State, US were quarantined over
the weekend as the number of animals linked to a cow infected with
mad cow disease increased.
A US delegation, which is in Japan this week to convince the
country to open the gates to US beef imports, may have its plans
scuppered as the Japanese farm ministry says it is very wary of
more BSE cases in the US.
In a bid to win back slashed beef sales, the FDA's head honcho will
travel to Japan today to discuss recent events linked to the first
case of mad cow disease in the US.
As the United States deals with the fallout from the first case of
mad cow disease to hit the country, an international organisation
warns countries to stay on the alert and buck up controls.
As the first case of mad cow disease sends US cattle prices
plunging on the markets and dozens of nations ban US beef imports,
new research shows that problems are starting at home in the
American kitchen as consumers begin to get...
US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman has announced a series of
e-Government initiatives in response to public fears over beef. In
a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care
Poll, over one in five American adults...
Belgian government officials said that the country will cease the eradication of entire herds in the case of new outbreaks of mad cow disease on farms, but slaughter cows selectively.
Japan's health ministry claims it may have found another case of
mad cow disease in a 23-month-old bullock slaughtered last month,
bringing the total number of cases in Japan to eight.
New knowledge on mad cow disease emerges as researchers across the
Atlantic claim to have developed a faster test for identifying the
disease, possibly even in living cows.
An American and a German scientist have developed a test that can
detect BSE, or mad cow disease, in live cattle. The innovation
could provide a breakthrough in the fight to eradicate the disease.
The Japanese cabinet endorsed a set of bills on Friday to ensure
the safety of food and protect consumer health in the wake of a
series of scandals and incidents to hit Japan in recent years.
Just when the Japanese food industry appeared to be settling down
after a period dogged with food scares and consumer fears, the
industry was stung on Friday by another quality-control scandal
when the government accused a company...
Israel has confirmed on Tuesday its first case of mad cow disease,
found in a cow in a kibbutz in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights,
but officials said they were confident no infected meat had reached
the market.
Lax security and dilapidated federal laboratories that test animals
for deadly diseases like anthrax and mad cow disease are putting
the livestock industry at risk, US scientists and government
officials said this week
The European Commission issued a new legal warning to France on
Wednesday to end its ban on British beef, which was imposed because
of mad cow disease and continues in defiance of a court ruling.
New research virtually eliminates the likelihood of mad cow disease
being transmitted from one generation of cattle to the next, a
senior British government adviser on the disease has reported.
The latest "mad cow disease" scare in Germany got a boost over the
weekend after reports that the McDonald's fast food restaurant
chain in Germany had pulled beef from circulation, Reuters Health
reports.
Food firms outperformed the Thai stock market in 2001 as their
cheap, essential products rode out the global economic slowdown and
analysts said good dividends and growth in key markets made them
attractive again this year, according...
Lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Japan
are considering setting up a new food safety agency in the
government by combining the divisions of the farm and health
ministries currently dealing with mad cow disease,...
Japan's Agriculture Ministry on Friday began checking all frozen
beef stored under a government buy-back programme for false labels,
following revelations Snow Brand Food Co Ltd had improperly
labelled its meat products, Reuters...
A day after Italy's first human case of suspected mad cow disease,
the European Parliament has demanded new EU powers to help prevent
the consumption of contaminated meat, reported Reuters.
Britain said on Wednesday it would extend a programme aimed at
eradicating scrapie from sheep amid fears that the illness could
mask mad cow disease in the national flock. Scientists are
investigating whether mad cow disease, or BSE,...
Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged his French counterpart, Lionel
Jospin, to allow British farmers to resume exports of beef to
France, officials at a two-day European Union summit said on
Saturday.
France will make sure that it protects consumers as it decides how
to respond to a ruling by the EU's top court that it is breaking EU
law by banning British beef, farm minister Jean Glavany said on
Friday.
Slovakia's fifth case of mad cow disease surfaced on Friday, three
months after the country became the second central European state
to discover the brain-wasting affliction, a state veterinarian
said.
Estonia said on Friday it imposed a five-year ban on imports of
live cattle and beef from neighbouring Finland after tests on a
slaughtered Finnish cow suspected of having mad cow disease proved
positive.
A European Union ban on meat-based livestock feed, imposed over
fears of mad cow disease, could in future be relaxed for certain
types of animals, E.U. officials said on Monday.
Japan's first outbreak of mad cow disease is rippling through the
world's second biggest economy, depressing sales of beef, putting
farmers on alert and shaking the food industry.
Tests on Britain's current sheep flock have so far yielded no
evidence of mad cow disease, but officials said earlier research on
samples taken in the 1990s might be invalid.
Japan's Health Ministry said on Tuesday that it planned to inspect
all cattle due to be processed into food, tightening up its checks
for mad cow disease which currently only cover cows aged 30 months
or more.
Tests from a German laboratory confirmed Slovakia's first case of
mad cow disease on Thursday, proving fears that the brain wasting
affliction has spread further into Eastern Europe.
The Japanese government is to temporarily place a total ban on the
distribution of imported and domestically produced meat and bone
meal (MBM), an animal feed suspected of causing mad cow disease,
government sources said yesterday.
The Japanese government made a huge blunder in ignoring a European
Union report warning of a mad cow disease outbreak in Japan, the
Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries minister admitted.
U.K. research published on Thursday said that an entrenched sheep
disease, scrapie, could have triggered mad cow disease, whose human
form has killed more than 100 people, primarily in Britain.
Before the end of July, the French government should adopt
precautionary measures in an effort to protect consumers from
potential transmission of mad cow disease.
For the second time in as many months, French lawmakers are about
to blame Britain for the spread of mad cow disease, saying French
red tape made it worse,...
France wants the European Union to test beef from outside the
15-member bloc for mad cow disease, just as it does with its own
meat, a farm ministry spokeswoman...
The Japanese government has blocked the publication of a European
Commission report that says mad cow disease, or BSE, could
theoretically break out...
