Korea rejects U.S. beef shipment. South Korea has rejected the latest shipment of U.S. beef and asked Washington to explain why it contained unacceptible levels of the toxic chemical dioxin, a governent official said Friday. [News Source]

Prion filter may help reduce the risk of humans contracting ‘mad cow disease’. A new blood filter device could in future prevent people being infected with the human form of mad cow disease through transfusions, it was revealed yesterday. [News Source]

Blood filter could halt transmission of ‘mad cow’ (Arizona Daily Star) Scientists have developed technology that may prevent the transmission of the human form of "mad cow" disease by filtering the pathogens that cause the illness out of tainted blood, according to a study published in The Lancet. [News Source]