U.S. to reduce mad cow testing by 90 percent (MSNBC) The Agriculture Department is cutting its tests for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups. [News Source]

Japanese wrapping up U.S. beef inspections / Audit to determine whether mad cow disease risk is gone (San Francisco Chronicle) Teams of Japanese agricultural officials are expected today to complete audits of 35 U.S. meat-processing facilities to assure themselves that mad cow disease will not be shipped to Japan when its ban on U.S. beef imports is lifted. The visits,... [News Source]

Agriculture Department to reduce mad cow testing by about 90 percent (Seattle Times) The Agriculture Department is cutting its tests for mad-cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups. The current testing level... [News Source]

U.S. to Trim Mad Cow Tests (Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting its tests for mad cow disease by about 90%, drawing protests from consumer groups. [News Source]

US mad cow pull-back won’t affect Japan beef move (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Japan's decision on reopening its market to U.S. beef will not be affected by the U.S. decision to reduce its mad cow testing program, although Tokyo still wants Washington not to do so, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said on Friday. [News Source]

Testing for Mad Cow Disease to Be Cut (Washington Post) The Agriculture Department said yesterday that it is cutting its testing for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups. [News Source]

Testing for Mad Cow Disease to Be Cut (Washington Post) The Agriculture Department said yesterday that it is cutting its testing for mad cow disease by about 90 percent, drawing protests from consumer groups. [News Source]

USDA Scales Back Mad-Cow Testing (Newsday) The Agriculture Department is scaling back its testing program for mad cow disease to one-tenth of what it has been since the discovery of an infected cow in the U.S. [News Source]