Things You Don?t Know, Can?t Know and Don?t Want to Know (New York Times) If you thought you were being nutritionally virtuous by stopping at Starbucks instead of McDonald?s, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says, ?Wrong!?? [News Source]

US Feed Ban May Be Too Costly To Industry (CattleNetwork.com) WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have underestimated the cost to industry of the government's plan to improve the way mad-cow disease contamination is kept out of livestock feed, Steve Sundlof, director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, said Tuesday. [News Source]

South Korea resumes beef imports. South Korea on Friday approved resuming imports of U.S. beef after repeated delays in implementing an earlier decision to lift a 2003 ban imposed because of mad cow fears. [News Source]

U.S. beef exports trickle. The door is at least cracked for the re-opening of beef trade with South Korea and Japan, but area agribusiness leaders say they are not expecting to see exports rebound to the levels before the December 2003 discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S. [News Source]

Securing the food supply has taken on more urgency. Farming might seem among the least-likely targets of terrorists, but ag officials say that's not the case, and there have been changes since 9/11. [News Source]

Creekstone says Asian market starting to pick up slowly (Arkcity.net) WICHITA-- Kansas beef producers say resumed trade with South Korea and Japan will help them gain back the trust of Asian meat consumers, though they don't think sales will rebound to levels seen before the two countries imposed bans over concerns about mad cow disease. [News Source]

SLU scientist receives $1.1M research grant (St. Louis Business Journal) Saint Louis University said Tuesday that one of its scientist received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study the cause of a family of neurodegenerative diseases in people and animals that includes Mad Cow disease. [News Source]

BSE likely came from feed (Iowa Farmer) OTTAWA (AP) -- An Alberta, Canada, dairy cow that was diagnosed last month with BSE (mad-cow disease) probably contracted the disease from contaminated feed, federal regulators said. [News Source]

U.S. beef exports trickle (The Wichita Eagle) The door is at least cracked for the re-opening of beef trade with South Korea and Japan, but area agribusiness leaders say they are not expecting to see exports rebound to the levels before the December 2003 discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S. [News Source]

User login (Cornell Daily Sun) In the wake of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, detecting biohazards and chemicals such as avian flu, mad cow disease or anthrax may be a wipe away. [News Source]