| Thu 17 May 2012 |
Stolen medical equipment may pose a health hazard
Herald Tribune | ORLANDO - Medical equipment used to detect a brain disease similar to mad cow has been stolen from Florida Hospital's main campus, and the equipment may pose a public health risk. | Hospital surveillance cameras captured footage of a white pickup w... |
| Wed 16 May 2012 |
Could France learn to love British beef?
BBC News France is famous for its gastronomy, while poking fun at British food is a Gallic pastime. There was also no love lost between French and British farmers in the wake of the BSE crisis. So why is a top Paris butcher now lauding British beef? | In a co... |
| Mon 14 May 2012 |
Beef industry searches for solutions after pink slime uproar
Fox News | ©2010 Juan Monino | Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. | Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat off beef carcasses, and g... |
Analysis: Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out "pink slime" stain
Reuters | WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois (Reuters) - Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. | Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat off beef... |
| Sun 13 May 2012 |
'Wish You Were Here': Graham Swift has a beef
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Ever wonder why there aren't more novels about mad cow disease? Graham Swift provides the answer in his rich but uneven new work, "Wish You Were Here." It's an awkward, unwieldy metaphor, even in the hands of a highly accomplished author ... |
| Sat 12 May 2012 |
9 most sickening food ingredients
Fox News | News about gross-out ingredients like pink slime and ammonia (more about both later) got us thinking: What other surprises lurk in the food we eat? We put that question to food safety as well as food manufacturing experts, and it turns out all kind... |
| Tue 8 May 2012 |
GE Healthcare Secures Additional Supply of Optison™ (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, USP)
Business Wire | Additional Optison May Minimize Supply Issues Resulting From Competitor Shortage | PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Healthcare today announced that additional supply for Optison™ (Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres Injectable Suspension, ... |
Breakthrough: A general treatment drug for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?
Yahoo Daily News A new procedure safeguards the production of crucial brain proteins, which could possibly help those who suffer from neurodegenerative disease function normally | British scientists may have discovered a new way to counteract the life-crippling effec... |
Don’t worry about mad cow
Buffalo News | If the mad cow found in California has you wondering about food safety, well, there are plenty of problems that pose serious risks to the food supply. But mad cow disease shouldn’t be high on the worry list. | Just in the past few months, America... |
| Mon 7 May 2012 |
Legal procedure hinders import diversification: Gita
Jakarta Post | Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan said on Saturday that Indonesia’s ban on US beef imports was “just a knee-jerk reaction” and viewed possibilities to import beef and live cattle from other countries, such as India, Brazil and Canada. | Speaking d... |
Tyson Reports Second Quarter and Six Months Fiscal 2012 Results
Seeking Alpha 2nd quarter EPS was $0.44 compared to $0.42 last year 2nd quarter Sales were $8.3 billion, up 3.4% compared to last year Overall operating margin was 3.7% | -- Chicken operating income $145 million, or 5.0% of sales | -- Beef operating loss $(1) mill... |
| Sat 5 May 2012 |
Beef industry juggles PR crises
The Charlotte Observer | LOS ANGELES Pink slime. Early death. Mad cow. | In the span of just a few weeks, the beef industry was hit by a string of crises this spring, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. | But it could have been wo... |
A vet's battle against lamb virus
The Daily Telegraph Cattle farmers are facing a tense wait to discover the impact the Schmallenberg virus has had on their herds as the disease continues to affect more farms. | Vet Andrew Wood with a flock of sheep on a farm near North Chailey in Sussex Photo: CHR... |
| Fri 4 May 2012 |
Mad Cow California
CounterPunch | The downer dairy cow recently found stricken with mad cow disease in California was infected with an “atypical” strain. Such cases are thought to arise spontaneously, a notion the USDA seized upon to explain how the disease could arise ... |
BSE and Pink Slime: Lessons to Be Learned
Huffington Post | It pains me to say it but there are some very real connections between BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the recent "pink slime" fiasco that need to be aired. | I am not saying that "pink slime" (lean finely textured beef or LFTB for short... |
Mad Cow Diease Investigation: USDA Quarantines Two Farms, Offspring Euthanized
Huffington Post | FRESNO, Calif. -- Investigators looking into California's first case of mad cow disease say they have tracked down at least one of her offspring in another state. | Since there is no live test for the disease also known as bovine spongiform encepha... |
| Thu 3 May 2012 |
Mad Cow California: What Is Atypical BSE?
Huffington Post | The downer dairy cow recently found stricken with mad cow disease in California was infected with an "atypical" strain. Such cases are thought to arise spontaneously, a notion the USDA seized upon to explain how the disease could arise despite thei... |
World's Meat Consumption: Luxembourg Eats The Most Per Person, India The Least
Huffington Post | Of all the countries in the world, which consumes the most meat per person? The answer might surprise you. | "Nope, it's not the burger-loving U.S. (though we do consume the second most in the world) -- it's tiny European nation Luxembourg, which t... |
Beef industry struggles to keep up with PR crises
Sacramento Bee | LOS ANGELES -- Pink slime. Early death. Mad cow. | In the span of just a few weeks, the beef industry was hit by a string of crises this spring, resulting in the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. | But it could have been... |
Mad Cow, Sane Coverage
Columbia Journalism Review | A few days after the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement last month that it had discovered a case of “mad cow disease” in California—the first in the US since 2006—its media liaison took a swipe reporter... |
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