Impact of beef recall widens. The nation's largest meat recall could grow into its largest food recall as companies destroy products with any amount of the 143 million pounds of beef recalled last week. [News Source]

Meatpacker in cow-abuse scandal may shut as Congress turns up heat. A meatpacker exposed by a hidden video camera is about to collapse, and has become a flashpoint in a national debate over meat safety and the quality of food for schoolchildren. [News Source]

Mad cows, bad enforcement (Seattle Times) Assurances that the nation's largest beef recall is merely a precaution are small comfort in Washington state. Remember, the nation's first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy — or mad-cow disease — was found in Yakima County in 2003. [News Source]

Sperm Ban Means Some in Short Supply (WJLA-TV Washington D.C.) For American parents looking for donor sperm to produce blond, blue-eyed Scandinavian babies, the search just got a little trickier. A ban on sperm from all European countries with exposure to mad cow disease means U.S. sperm banks are running low. [News Source]