S.Korea finds bones in U.S. beef order (AP via Yahoo! News) South Korea said Friday it would suspend imports of beef from a U.S. slaughterhouse after inspectors found three bone fragments in a shipment, a violation of an agreement related to mad cow disease. [News Source]

Proposed Federal Bio Lab Concerns Some Residents (WISC Channel3000.com via Yahoo! News) Animal diseases such as bird flu, hoof and mouth, and mad cow could find a home near Lake Kegonsa under a plan by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [News Source]

State on guard for disease in deer. The surprise appearance of CWD-infected deer in New York and West Virginia in recent years has heightened concerns about the disease spreading to Maine’s deer herd, which is key to a big-game hunting industry. [News Source]

Japan conducts surprise inspections of U.S. beef facilities (Japan Today) TOKYO — Japanese officials have conducted surprise inspections of U.S. meatpacking plants that were authorized to export beef to Japan after the country lifted its ban on U.S. beef imports imposed because of the fear of mad cow disease, farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka said Thursday. [News Source]

Japan has conducted snap inspections of U.S. beef facilities (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ Japanese officials have conducted surprise inspections of U.S. meatpacking plants that were authorized to export beef to Japan after the country lifted its ban on U.S. beef imports imposed because of the fear of mad cow disease, farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka said Thursday. [News Source]

The Billings Outpost (Billings Outpost) An article on country-of-origin labeling in the Nov. 16 Outpost contained this sentence regarding so-called “mad cow” disease (BSE): “The only cattle in the United States found to have BSE hailed from Canada.” [News Source]

Czech authorities confirms new mad cow case (AFP via Yahoo! News) A 25th case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed in a 72-month-old cow, from a farm in the northwest of the Czech Republic, veterinary authorities announced. [News Source]

U.S. protests Korea’s beef rejection. The United States strongly protested South Korea's decision not to accept the first shipment of its beef since it lifted a three-year import ban. [News Source]

Agriculture secretary criticizes South Korea for rejecting U.S. beef shipment. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns criticized South Korea for halting beef shipments from a U.S. meatpacker, saying authorities there had "invented" a standard for imports. [News Source]

Two cows were talking in the field. One cow: (The Telegraph) Have you heard about the Mad Cow disease?... | Read.. I scream, you scream, we all love ice cream. Don’t we? And guess what? Ice ... | Read.. [News Source]