Judge slows pace of suit over mad cow testing (Reuters via Yahoo! News) 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. [News Source]

Canada Tightens Feed Rules to Fight Mad Cow Disease (RedNova) Canada tightens feed rules to fight mad cow dis [News Source]

Canada adopts new rules on mad cow (Montana Standard) OTTAWA (AP) — Canada has broadened restrictions on animal feed in an effort to fight mad cow disease and reopen export markets to Canadian beef, the government said Monday. [News Source]

Most Japanese oppose US beef trade restart: poll. A large majority of Japanese respondents to a poll -- 71 percent -- said they were opposed or "fairly opposed" to Japan's decision to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports, a survey by the Yomiuri newspaper showed on Tuesday. [News Source]

New Zealand prepares for beef with US. The day New Zealand has to fight the United States for its beef trade with Japan is approaching. [News Source]

Full ban ordered on risky cow parts. Canada moved one step closer to a mad-cow-free national herd Monday when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced a long-anticipated ban on high-risk cattle materials in animal feeds, pet foods and fertilizers. [News Source]

Anti-BSE feed rules widened to include pet food, fertilizers. Cattle tissues that could transmit mad-cow disease will no longer be allowed in pet foods, chicken feed and fertilizer under new federal rules announced Monday. [News Source]

Canada to ban risky cattle tissue in all animal feed. Canada said it will ban certain cattle tissue suspected of causing mad-cow disease from all animal feed, pet food and fertilizer. [News Source]

Cattle tissue ban expanded. The Canadian federal government is moving to strengthen its ban on the use of cattle tissue in animal feed in an effort to fight mad cow disease and reopen export markets to Canadian beef. [News Source]

Feed company to appeal mad cow ruling. Livestock feed company Ridley Inc. is trying to appeal a ruling that permits a class action lawsuit over mad cow disease to proceed through the courts. [News Source]