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WASHINGTON - The chief executive and founder of Creekstone Farms said Friday that even if Japan accepts U.S. beef, his company should still be allowed to test all its cattle for mad cow disease to help grow the Japanese market.
Testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy "will help us instill confidence in our consumers," said John Stewart of Arkansas City-based Creekstone. "We still know that consumers there are skittish on U.S. beef."
Testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy "will help us instill confidence in our consumers," said John Stewart of Arkansas City-based Creekstone. "We still know that consumers there are skittish on U.S. beef."
July 11, 2006
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EDMONTON - Another suspected case of mad cow disease has surfaced, this time in a young dairy cow on a farm near Edmonton.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is conducting tests to confirm whether the 50-month-old dairy cow, the youngest so far detected since the first case turned up in 2003, had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) when it died.
July 10, 2006
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LA JOLLA, California, July 10, 2006 (ENS) - Prions - the same disease agents that cause the fatal brain illness known as mad cow disease and its human variant - also cause a form of heart disease in mice, scientists at Scripps Research Institute have found.
The finding raises the possibility that heart infection could be a type of prion disease, and that these prion diseases could travel through the blood.
The finding raises the possibility that heart infection could be a type of prion disease, and that these prion diseases could travel through the blood.
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GALVESTON A breakthrough by a local research team could illuminate one of medicine's darkest secrets by exposing how many people could unknowingly be infected with the human form of mad cow disease.
The University of Texas Medical Branch team, headed by neurology professor Claudio Soto, has detected the malformed proteins that cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, during the so-called silent phase of the infection.
The University of Texas Medical Branch team, headed by neurology professor Claudio Soto, has detected the malformed proteins that cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, during the so-called silent phase of the infection.
July 6, 2006
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A technique for identifying abnormal proteins in hamsters may lead to the first human test for the fatal brain-wasting illness caused by mad cow disease, researchers said.
Blood tests in hamsters with scrapie, a disease related to mad cow, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, were able to detect signs of infection before symptoms appear, according to a study in today's issue of the journal Science.
The study is a step toward diagnosing the human version, known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, early enough to prevent its spread, according to the study.
June 27, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small U.S. meatpacker will have three more weeks, until July 14, to file court documents asking for an immediate end to the federal monopoly on mad-cow tests, a U.S. district court judge decided on Tuesday.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC wants to test all of its cattle for brain-wasting mad cow disease, saying it would give customers in nations like Japan confidence in U.S. beef. The Agriculture Department says the tests are a food safety matter, not a marketing gimmick.
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC wants to test all of its cattle for brain-wasting mad cow disease, saying it would give customers in nations like Japan confidence in U.S. beef. The Agriculture Department says the tests are a food safety matter, not a marketing gimmick.
June 22, 2006
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LONDON - People could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease for more than 50 years without developing the illness, which means the size of a potential epidemic may be underestimated, UK scientists said on Friday.
So far about 160 people have been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Cases of the fatal disease have also been reported in France, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan and the United States.
So far about 160 people have been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Cases of the fatal disease have also been reported in France, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan and the United States.
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COVERING KENTUCKY
Livestock Feed Sent To Kentucky Recalled Over Possible Mad Cow Violation
Washington (AP) -- Livestock feed ingredients shipped to nine states, including Kentucky, may have been contaminated with cattle remains in violation of a 1997 ban to protect against mad cow disease, a manufacturer said Tuesday.
Livestock Feed Sent To Kentucky Recalled Over Possible Mad Cow Violation
Washington (AP) -- Livestock feed ingredients shipped to nine states, including Kentucky, may have been contaminated with cattle remains in violation of a 1997 ban to protect against mad cow disease, a manufacturer said Tuesday.
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LONDON People could be infected with the human form of mad cow disease for more than 50 years without developing the illness, which means the size of a potential epidemic may be underestimated, British scientists said Friday. About 160 people have been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Cases of the fatal disease have also been reported in France, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan and the United States.
June 14, 2006
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The small scientific world of prion researchers -- the scientists who investigate "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE) such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans -- is abuzz. That's because the two confirmed cases of US mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama are an "atypical" strain different from the British strain. This really should not be surprising. Sheldon Rampton and I reported in 1997 that very strong evidence of an "atypical" TSE disease in US cattle goes back to the 1985 work of Dr.
