Japan to Inspect U.S. Meatpackers (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Japanese officials will go on a two-week inspection tour of U.S. meatpackers exporting beef to Japan to evaluate their compliance with restrictions Tokyo imposed over mad cow disease concerns, the government said Friday. [News Source]

Japan calls U.S. trade report ‘inaccurate,’ says beef import restrictions should remain. Japan's restrictions on U.S. beef imports -- imposed due to concerns over mad cow disease -- were among the barriers the USTR cited in its report. [News Source]

Japan to inspect U.S. meatpackers exporting beef. Japanese officials will go on a two-week inspection tour of U.S. meatpackers exporting beef to Japan to evaluate their compliance with restrictions Tokyo imposed over mad cow disease concerns, the government said Friday. [News Source]

PRESS RELEASE: Cows are swinging now on mobile phones (gamesindustry.biz) A new game for mobile phones has been released by baby-soft. „Mad Cow Martha“ is a simple and fun game with very cute graphics. With a one button control, it is a good game for even children and beginning gamers. [News Source]

New understanding of infectious prion (News-Medical-Net) Researchers have known for decades that certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as mad cow disease or its human equivalent, Cruetzfeldt-Jakob disease, result from a kind of infectious protein called a prion. [News Source]