Calgary study looks at mental and physical health impact of BSE on producers (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) CALGARY - University of Calgary researchers want to know if Canadian beef producers are suffering long-term physical and mental health problems because of the mad cow crisis. [News Source]

Calgary study to see if mad cow crisis hurt mental, physical health of farmers (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) CALGARY - Researchers at the University of Calgary want to know if farmers and ranchers are suffering long-term physical and mental health problems as a result of the mad cow crisis. [News Source]

New technology 80 times more effective at detecting mad-cow disease in the food chain (Business Weekly) Cambridge based ProMetic Life Sciences says its new technology could improve the sensitivity of tests for mad-cow disease by "as much as 80-fold." [News Source]