September 14, 2006

No plans to end rule on older Canadian cattle: USDA

WASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns was cited as saying on Wednesday after meeting with Canadian Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl in Washington that the United States has no plans to permanently scrap a rule that would allow the import of older cattle from Canada after an Alberta cow was found to have contracted mad cow disease from contaminated feed, adding, "I don't see anything that indicates to me that this would stop that rule dead in its tracks, prohibit it from going forward." Mad Cow Blog Link


Mad-cow protein is degraded by soil: study

PARIS -- A study which appears online in the journal Environmental Science and Technology was cited as finding that prions get degraded by microbial enzymes in the soil. FSnet Link