Mad Cow: Symptoms Emerge Decades Later (WebMD) Symptoms of mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE) may emerge more than 50 years after infection in humans, according to a new study. [News Source]

Livestock Feed Sent To Kentucky Recalled Over Possible Mad Cow Violation (WLEX-TV Lexington) 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. [News Source]

Cannibalism Study May Hold Clues for Mad-Cow Disease (Correct) (Bloomberg.com) (Corrects spelling of Papua New Guinea in sixth paragraph.) June 23 (Bloomberg) -- A study of an epidemic caused by cannibalism indicates the human form of mad-cow disease may incubate for more than 50 years before developing into the fatal illness, researchers said in a medical journal. [News Source]

Study Predicts More Human ‘Mad Cow’ Deaths (New York Times) The long lives that some former cannibals enjoy before succumbing to a brain-wasting disease suggest that many more humans will eventually die of mad cow disease. [News Source]

More deaths from mad cow disease predicted (International Herald Tribune) The long lives that some former cannibals enjoy before succumbing to a brain-wasting disease suggest that many more humans will eventually die of mad cow disease, according to a study released Friday. [News Source]

Japanese officials to visit Tyson’s Holcomb plant. Tyson Foods Inc.'s nine beef plants, including one near Holcomb, KS will be part of a nationwide inspection to verify that the U.S. beef industry meets Japan's import standards. [News Source]

Swift plants included in Japan inspections. All four Swift & Co. beef-packing plants in the western U.S. will be included in inspections by Japanese teams as a condition for lifting Japan's ban on U.S. beef imports, the company said. [News Source]

Japan calls U.S. beef sanctions ‘nonsense’. Japan's agriculture minister on Friday denounced as "nonsense" a U.S. proposal to impose sanctions on Tokyo if it doesn't resume imports of American beef. [News Source]

Japan beef deal disappoints some. Japan's decision to reopen its market to U.S. beef brought joy to the nation's cattlemen and some hand-wringing by its meat processors, upset that their plants would be open to Japanese inspection as part of the deal. [News Source]

Punish Japan if won’t buy US beef: Senate panel. The United States should impose economic sanctions on Japan if it fails to put aside its fears of mad cow disease and open its borders to U.S. beef by the end of the summer, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday. [News Source]