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Ice cream standards of identity Ice cream standards of identity continue to be the subject of debate, as trade organizations filed comments on proposed revisions allowing for products manufactured using [...]

The Creekstone BSE testing controversy has erupted into an unexpected national issue, generating an enormous amount of coverage on national news networks and in major newspapers across the country. On [...]

The discovery of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States promises to make life very interesting for trade officials in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the [...]

Random sampling has revealed a sharp decline in E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef, USDA announced last week. From January to Aug. 31, 2003, 0.32% samples tested positive for the [...]

Paraguay has lagged behind its neighbors in bringing foot-and-mouth disease under control, but a recently inaugurated nationwide vaccination program should make it possible to gain conditional FMD-free status within months. [...]

The American Heart Association announced last week that it has revoked its certification of beef strip steaks produced by Laura's Lean Beef Company. The decision means the company can no [...]

European Health Commissioner David Byrne told an Agriculture Council meeting last week that roughly two-thirds of mad cow disease cases continue to be found through testing. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) [...]

A congressman in the Mexican state of Jalisco has advised constituents to stop consuming beef liver because numerous ranchers are still using clenbuterol as a feed additive. Rep. Jose Munoz [...]

The UK agency that monitors variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy linked to mad cow disease, last week reported that vCJD continues to be higher in Scotland and [...]

Kikuhito Sugata, a Japanese agriculture ministry official, has reported a ministry estimate that last fall's mad cow disease outbreak caused more than 365 billion yen ($277 million) in damage to [...]