(AFX UK Focus) 2007-02-16 04:19 GMT: Japan suspends beef imports from one US factory (Interactive Investor) TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - Japan said it will suspend imports from one US meat factory after it violated safety rules which were put in place to protect against mad cow disease. [News Source]

Japan suspends beef imports from one US factory (AFP via Yahoo!7 News) TOKYO (AFP) - Japan has confirmed it will suspend imports from one US meat factory after it violated safety rules which were put in place to protect against mad cow disease. [News Source]

Japan Blocking Beef From Neb. Plant (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Japan will suspend beef imports from a U.S. processing plant after finding meat in a shipment that may violate a regulation imposed over mad cow concerns, the government said Friday. [News Source]

Tri-State Neighbor (Tri-State Neighbor) Do genes affect bovine spongiform encephalopathy - also known as BSE or “mad cow” disease? Are some cattle more susceptible than others? [News Source]

Concern over ‘horrifying’ conditions for organic cod raised in fish farms. Horrifying conditions on supposedly organic cod fish farms have been condemned by a government adviser. [News Source]

Senators have beef with Japanese meat. Western lawmakers say the Senate isn't serving up enough American red meat. [News Source]

Imports of U.S.. bone-in beef may hurt local cattle farmers. Allowing imports of U.S. bone-in beef could seriously undermine the profits of South Korean cattle farmers by driving down cattle prices here, a state think tank warned Thursday. [News Source]

Bernard Matthews says bird flu scare not his fault. Bernard Matthews, whose poultry firm of the same name was at the heart of a bird flu outbreak in Britain, said he was sorry for the scare but insisted it was not his company's fault. [News Source]

Protein blocking reverses ‘mad cow disease’ in mice (New Scientist) A new treatment rescues the brain function of mice with prion disease, but any attempt to adapt the approach to humans with vCJD will take many years [News Source]

Gene silencing fights mad cow disease (New Scientist) A type of gene silencing known as RNA interference slows the progression of prion disease in mice by more than 30% [News Source]