Nation/world briefs (The Arizona Republic) National and world business news briefs. [News Source]

MESS LEFT FOR HUNTER’S WIFE IS DANGEROUS AND DISGUSTING (Dear Abby via Yahoo! News) DEAR ABBY: The letter from "Kay in St. Joseph, Mo." (Jan. 10) caught my attention. She's the woman whose husband (a hunter) leaves bloody footprints and pieces of deer carcass throughout their house and his soiled clothes piled in the kitchen. [News Source]

Japan to tighten checks on U.S. processed meat (Lincoln Journal Star) TOKYO — Japan will check all processed meats imported from the United States after a shipment was found last week with sausages containing beef in violation of regulations intended to contain mad cow disease, an official said Monday. [News Source]

MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: KC to gain Iowa commodities firm following its IPO (Kansas City Star) A West Des Moines, Iowa-based commodities firm plans to raise up to $128 million in an initial public stock offering and move its headquarters to Kansas City. [News Source]

Japan to check all imports of US processed meat for beef. Japan bans the import of U.S. meat products such as sausage that contain processed beef under restrictions aimed at controlling the threat of mad cow disease, the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. [News Source]

Music Review: ‘The Music Man’ (Orlando Sentinel) On Saturday afternoon at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, the Orlando Philharmonic offered a departure from its traditional symphonic repertoire with "The Music Man: A Semi-Staged Musical." [News Source]

Japan To Check All Processed Meat Imported From US (CattleNetwork.com) TOKYO (AP)-- Japan will check all processed meats imported from the U.S. after a shipment was found last week to contain sausages with beef in violation of regulations aimed at containing mad cow disease, an official said Monday. [News Source]

Japan Checking All U.S. Meat Imports (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Japan will check all processed meats imported from the United States after a shipment was found last week with sausages containing beef in violation of regulations aimed at containing mad cow disease, an official said Monday. [News Source]

Japan Bans Beef from One Tyson Foods Plant (The Morning News) Springdale-based Tyson Foods Inc. reported Friday that Japan has suspended beef exports from one of its seven U.S. beef packing facilities. [News Source]

Tribal members train for elite response team (Daily Inter Lake) They will be specialists in how to handle hazardous materials and what do in the event of “agro-terrorism” — involving highly contagious diseases such as avian flu and mad cow disease. [News Source]