South Korea trade deal gets mixed response in U.S. (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A major trade deal between the United States and South Korea received a mixed response on Monday as some U.S. business leaders and politicians complained it fell short on boosting U.S. auto and agriculture exports. [News Source]

Judge: Government must allow private testing for mad cow (Madison Daily Leader) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government must allow meatpackers to test their animals for mad cow disease, a federal judge ruled Thursday. [News Source]

South Korea trade deal gets mixed response in U.S (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A major trade deal between the United States and South Korea received a mixed response on Monday as some U.S. business leaders and politicians complained it fell short on boosting U.S. auto and agriculture exports. [News Source]

New case of madcow disease in Slovenia confirmed (AFP via Yahoo! News) Slovenian veterinary authorities said on Monday additional testing confirmed that a seven-year-old cow slaughtered last month in the country was infected with mad cow disease. [News Source]

Slovenia confirms new case of mad cow disease (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Slovenia on Monday confirmed a new case of mad cow disease in a six-year-old animal slaughtered last week. [News Source]

Court Allows Private Testing for Mad Cow Disease (RedNova) GeneThera, Inc. (OTCBB: GTHA) today announced that on Thursday March 29, 2007, a federal judge ruled that the federal government must allow meatpackers to test their animals for Mad Cow Disease. [News Source]

Safety priority: U.S. meatpackers should be allowed to do as much testing as they want for mad cow disease. Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, a meatpacker based in Arkansas City, took its case to the federal courts after the U.S. Department of Agriculture barred it from testing all of the cattle it slaughters for mad cow disease. [News Source]

T-bone clone: FDA to lift food ban tied to new science. Regulators are taking a giant step closer today to let stores and restaurants sell cloned T-bone steaks and pork chops - all designed to be tastier, healthier and cheaper. [News Source]

SKorea trade deal hinges on ending beef ban: US (AFP via Yahoo! News) A big US-South Korea free trade agreement is unlikely to be ratified by Washington unless Seoul ends a ban imposed on US beef over fears of mad cow disease, a US official and key lawmaker said Monday. [News Source]

SKorea and US reach deal to break down trade barriers (AFP via Yahoo! News) With just minutes to go, the United States and South Korea on Monday reached a free trade agreement which scraps tariffs on thousands of items and will boost commerce by billions of dollars a year. [News Source]