Mad-Cow Testing on Trial.

Examines the testing methods in place in the United States to determine safety in the beef supply from mad-cow disease. Number of companies that have test kits that can determine whether a slaughtered cow carries bovine spongiform encephalopathy within four hours; Average cost per animal for the testing of each cow slaughtered, according to industry experts, indicating a profit can still be made off the beef from the that cow; Statistics related to the cost of testing U.S. cows under the standards currently in place in Europe; Comments from Scott McKinlay, president of InPro Biotechnology Inc., a maker of test-kits; Comments from Kazuki Ikeda, an official in Japan's Agriculture Ministry's Department of Meat and Poultry, regarding the safety of testing every cow as they do in Japan; Current guidelines in the U.S.