Government reconsidering Canadian cattle imports (Yakima Herald-Republic) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, reviving a plan that had stalled amid evidence that Canada's safeguards against mad cow disease were not working. [News Source]

USDA Resumes Plan to Ease Mad-Cow Strictures on Canadian Cattle (Bloomberg.com) Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will proceed with a plan to expand beef and cattle trade with Canada after putting the proposal on hold in July when Canada found its seventh case of mad-cow disease. [News Source]

U.S. resumes work on Canada mad-cow trade rule (Reuters via Yahoo! News) After a four-month pause to re-examine Canada's safeguards against mad cow disease, the United States may open the door to imports of older cattle and beef from its northern neighbor, U.S. and Canadian officials said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Mad Cow Risk Low for Hemophilia Patients (InteliHealth) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday. [News Source]

State readies for chronic waste disease outbreak. Earlier this month, a state audit in Wisconsin showed that state's multi-year, multi-million dollar effort to slow the spread of CWD has failed. [News Source]

U.S. officials revive plan to resume trade in older Canadian cattle. The U.S. Agriculture Department is resurrecting its plan to allow older Canadian cattle and beef products across the border. [News Source]

National livestock identification system goes voluntary. A quiet federal decision last week to drop plans for a mandatory registration of livestock in a national database should encourage more farmers to enroll voluntarily, according to state and beef industry officials. [News Source]

Mad cow risk low for hemophilia patients. Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday. [News Source]

More Canadian beef sought. The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, reviving a plan that had stalled amid evidence that Canada's safeguards against mad cow disease were not working. [News Source]

Agriculture Department tries again to increase cattle imports from Canada (WLUC TV 6) WASHINGTON The Agriculture Department is trying again to increase cattle and beef imports from Canada, after worries about mad cow disease derailed earlier efforts. [News Source]