9th case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (AG Weekly) OTTAWA (AP) — The United States said Thursday it would dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada’s latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]

Back to grass roots. How much do you know about where your beef comes from? Paul Slayton, executive director of PA Beef Council, said he sees a slight shift in the market from consumers buying traditional beef products to more niche products, especially since cases of mad cow disease arose in 2003. [News Source]

Region’s sole lab that tests for mad cow will shut soon. The only mad cow testing laboratory in the Northwest will close Thursday, just over three years after a Yakima Valley dairy cow tested positive for the chronic brain-wasting disease. [News Source]

Region’s sole lab that tests for mad cow will shut soon (The Oregonian) PULLMAN, Wash. -- The only mad cow testing laboratory in the Northwest will close Thursday, just over three years after a Yakima Valley dairy cow tested positive for the chronic brain-wasting disease. [News Source]

9th case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (AG Weekly) OTTAWA (AP) — The United States said Thursday it would dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada’s latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]

Feast or famine. Food producers learn how to manage public's perception of health risks -outrage management and crisis communication. [News Source]

Local farmers react to Japanese beef on U.S. Senate menu. Japanese beef is a sensitive issue for many farm-state lawmakers, as Japan resumed limited U.S. beef imports last year after a ban that lasted more than two years. The ban, issued because of concerns about mad cow disease, irked American ranchers and caused a strain between the two countries. [News Source]

Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood (Science Daily) For the first time, experimental results indicate that it is possible to use a resin filter to remove harmful prion proteins from the blood of an infected animal, a finding that has major implications for the removal of infectious prion proteins -- the agents associated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, scrapie and other prion diseases in animals -- during blood ... [News Source]

9th case of mad cow disease confirmed in Canada (AG Weekly) OTTAWA (AP) — The United States said Thursday it would dispatch a specialist to help investigate Canada’s latest case of mad cow, but that Washington did not expect the new finding to hurt trade between the two countries. [News Source]

Washington State University BSE Testing Lab To Close March 1 (CattleNetwork.com) cow tested positive for the chronic brain-wasting disease. The Washington State University lab opened after the nation's first mad-cow case in December 2003 prompted some new safeguards. [News Source]