Nelson: S. Korean beef snafu hurts U.S. reputation. Continued errors in beef shipment compliance are hurting U.S. efforts to regain overseas consumers, said U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. [News Source]

Nelson calls for beef shipment reforms. U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska wants more oversight of federal beef inspectors and beef exports after yet another blunder was revealed this week. [News Source]

Export dealers claim AQIS vets untrained. The federal government had employed untrained and unqualified veterinarians in its quarantine service as it tried to keep Australia safe from exotic diseases, according to former owners of a game meat export processing plant. [News Source]

Read the latest local A & E coverage in Ticket, our weekly tabloid entertainment supplement (London Free Press) WINNIPEG -- Animal feed producer Ridley Inc. is asking the Supreme Court of Canada for leave to appeal a decision that denied early dismissal of a potential mad cow class-action suit against it and the federal government. [News Source]

HOT FUZZ (Orlando Weekly) The last time I had breakfast at Heathrow, I was hurriedly downing steak and eggs in the airport’s food court before a connecting flight to Cairo, Egypt, an act I considered quite brazen considering it was during the height of Britain’s mad cow frenzy. [News Source]