Denmark Reports First Case of Lethal Scrapie Animal Disease (Bloomberg.com) Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Denmark reported its first case of scrapie, a lethal disease affecting sheep and goats which is related to mad cow disease. [News Source]

US Loses Steam In Regaining Asian Beef Markets (CattleNetwork.com) WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The latest deal struck by U.S. negotiators to resume beef exports to Asia has so far yielded no new business, and trade has even taken a small step backward, with new restrictions now that more mad-cow concerns have surfaced regarding neighboring Canada . [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]

Ranchers hope ID tags help stamp out disease in cows. Florida cattle businesses are testing a new national system for tracking animals that federal officials hope to have operative on a voluntary basis by 2009. [News Source]

Recalls on California produce has experts questioning farming practices. The recent rash of recalls on California produce has exposed some serious concerns about the Golden State's farming practices, Canadian food experts said Tuesday. [News Source]

People watching what they eat but not for the usual reasons. The threat of E. coli and botulism poisoning from leafy green vegetables and carrot juice produced in California has Canadians once again watching what they eat — and food experts raising questions about where it comes from. [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]

GeneThera and Leading Italian Research Institute Finalize Collaboration Agreement on Mad-Cow & Other Animal Diseases (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.----GeneThera, Inc. is pleased to announce the finalization, subject to final translation, of a Collaboration Agreement with Italy's leading applied research laboratory, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna to collaborate on scientific research related to the diagnosis of animal transmittable diseases, such as Mad-Cow and Scrapie diseases. [News Source]

Taking (Live) Stock (Seven Days) Five years ago, the Faillace farm in Warren made national headlines when federal agents seized the family’s flock of sheep — the government suspected the animals might have been exposed to deadly mad cow disease. [News Source]

Ranchers hope ID tags help stamp out disease in cows (The Palm Beach Post) Japanese consumers aren't just asking, "Where's the beef?" [News Source]