Move to limit food laws leaves bad taste for some. The National Uniformity for Food Act is billed as a bid for consistent food safety and labeling rules so that businesses don't have to wade through a hodgepodge of state and local laws, but food safety advocates say the legislation has a more sinester agenda. [News Source]

New way to study prions found. Scientists at McLaughlin Research Center have discovered a new way to study prions, the infectious agents that cause brain-wasting diseases, and hope the work could lead to a better understanding of who is more at risk to contract such diseases. [News Source]

Article points out new danger for deer hunters. A University of Kentucky and his UK colleagues recently published a report in the prestigious journal Science, confirming for the first time that muscle meat from deer infected with one of chronic wasting disease contains infective prions. [News Source]

Japan rejects US calls to end beef ban immediately. Japan rejected a US call for the immediate resumption of US beef imports, saying Japanese consumers will not buy the meat unless Washington clears concerns over mad cow disease. [News Source]

United States reaffirms to Japan assessment that export of banned beef parts a unique incident. The U.S. government has reaffirmed its view that the delivery to Japan of a beef shipment containing banned parts thought to be at risk for mad cow disease was a unique case. [News Source]

South Korea demands more tests before buying US beef. South Korea says it will delay resuming beef imports from the US until further tests are conducted to determine the age of a cow found to be infected with mad-cow disease in Alabama last week. [News Source]

Calf from Alabama ‘mad cow’ being tested. One of at least two calves born to an Alabama cow with mad cow disease will be tested for evidence of the fatal, brain-wasting disease, the state's agriculture commissioner said Friday. [News Source]

Japan’s mad cow case worries cattle industry. The Australian Cattle Council is worried about a consumer backlash against beef in Japan, after the latest outbreak of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Not ‘where’s the beef,’ but what’s in the beef. Chicken manure, scraps from restaurant plates, melted animal fat, bovine blood products -- all are approved ingredients for cattle feed. [News Source]

Alabama cow with mad cow born before feed ban - USDA. An examination of the Alabama cow identified as the third US case of mad cow disease showed the animal was at least 10 years old, meaning it was born before the 1997 feed ban was implemented, US officials said on Thursday. [News Source]