‘Smart regulation’ ain’t so smart Environmental lawyers, health and safety experts, and even the auditor general have criticized the government for putting too many barriers in the way of public interest regulation. [News Source]

Do food rules work? Proof in the pudding. Oversight of the nation's food network, from farm to processing plant, from packaging facility to market, is spread willy-nilly across the federal bureaucracy. [News Source]

Putting mad cow to the test. Not only are cows they responsible for E.coli, they can also carry the brain-wasting illness, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which is more commonly known as mad cow disease. [News Source]

PlayStation’s serious side: Fighting disease (Financial Express) Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease. [News Source]

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