Court Allows Private Testing for Mad Cow Disease (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. 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. Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows for the disease, a move that larger companies feared. [News Source]

Creekstone Farms Wins Mad Cow Testing Case; USDA Might Appeal (Progressive Grocer) APRIL 02, 2007 -- ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A federal district court has ruled that Creekstone Farms based here and other meatpackers have the right to test all the animals they slaughter for mad cow disease. Unless USDA appeals the decision, Creekstone can start testing for the disease on June 1. [News Source]

U.S. and South Korea in Landmark Trade Deal (New York Times) The United States sealed its biggest pact since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. [News Source]

U.S. and South Korea reach free trade agreement (International Herald Tribune) American and South Korean negotiators struck the world's largest bilateral free trade agreement on Monday, after 10 months of tortuous negotiations, just in time to comply with a legislative deadline in the United States. Photo: A production line at a Hyundai plant in South Korea. [News Source]

SKorea and US reach free trade agreement, rice excluded (AFP via Yahoo! News) With just hours to go, the United States and South Korea on Monday reached a free trade agreement which scraps tariffs on a huge range of items but excludes rice, as Seoul had demanded. [News Source]

South Korea, U.S. reach free trade deal (AP via Yahoo! News) The United States and South Korea concluded a landmark free trade agreement Monday, a U.S. official said, culminating 10 months of negotiations in a final week of intense haggling that just beat a key U.S. legislative deadline. [News Source]

U.S. Strikes Free-Trade Deal With South Korea (Forbes) Down to the wire negotiations yield largest trade pact for the U.S. since NAFTA. [News Source]

U.S. and South Korea Reach Trade Deal (New York Times) The countries reached a bilateral deal that could increase their annual $72 billion trade by more than $20 billion. [News Source]

SKorea and US reach free trade agreement (AFP via Yahoo! News) The United States and South Korea on Monday reached a major free trade agreement expected to boost both countries' exports by billions of dollars and rejuvenate the Korean economy. [News Source]