BUSINESS Yoshinoya serves up 1 million U.S. beef bowls; one man lines up from Sunday night (Japan Today) TOKYO — Fast-food restaurant chain Yoshinoya D&C Co resumed sales of "gyudon" beef-on-rice dishes Monday, about two years and seven months after removing the mainstay dish from its menu due to Japan's ban on U.S. beef imports over fear of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Why ’smart regulation’ isn’t. Canada should be emulating the precautionary approach of the EU, which is bringing in new regulations for toxic chemicals through its REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) legislation. [News Source]

Burden versus boon. A proposed federal animal identification system may seem as simple as piercing a sow's ear, but some area farmers and legislators say it would provide unnecessary safeguards and place undue burdens on the agriculture industry. [News Source]

Prions may be decontaminated by copper-hydrogen peroxide formulation. Research indicates that a novel formulation of copper and hydrogen peroxide can inactivate prion protein, the agent linked to mad cow disease, French researchers report. [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]

Japan’s U.S. Beef Imports Remain Slow (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Japan is set to import 15,000 tons of U.S. beef in 2006, just a fraction of what it bought before a two-year hiatus spurred by a scare over mad cow disease, a trade group said Tuesday. [News Source]

Japan 06 US Beef Imports A Fraction Of Pre-Mad Cow Levels (CattleNetwork.com) TOKYO (AP)-- Japan is set to import 15,000 tons of U.S. beef in 2006, just a fraction of what it bought before a two-year hiatus over a mad cow scare, a trade group said Tuesday. [News Source]

Review: Grisly ‘Sweeney Todd’ sinfully entertaining (Florida Today) Mad Cow stuns with provocative production of "Sweeney Todd." [News Source]