Latest Mad Cow Disease News

Ranchers Shouldn`t Worry About Canadian Mad Cow (KQCD-TV Dickinson)
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 10:22 pm

Agriculture leaders say North Dakota ranchers don`t have to worry about the newly confirmed case of mad cow disease in Canada. It`s the second case there in the past two months. [News Source]

Canadian food inspection agency confirms new case of mad cow (Havre Daily News)
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 1:49 pm

Canada confirmed a new case of mad cow disease Tuesday, the country's 12th such case since the disease was first discovered there in 2003. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the cow's carcass entered the human food or animal feed chains. [News Source]

Officials scramble to track down, dispose of all recalled beef.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

Health inspectors scrambled Tuesday to contact more than 300 Inland businesses -- ranging from mom-and-pop markets and eateries to big-name burger joints -- that the state identified as having received products from a Chino slaughterhouse under federal investigation. [News Source]

Iowa schools’ beef trashed; food oversight questioned.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

Iowa officials sent more than 160,000 pounds of recalled beef to be destroyed at a Des Moines-area landfill on Tuesday, after the California plant that produced it was accused of slaughtering disabled cattle in violation of federal food safety rules. [News Source]

Recalled beef found in restaurant lasagna meat.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

Recalled beef has been found in the product line of ConAgra, one of the nation's largest food conglomerates, according to Sysco Food Services of Sacramento. [News Source]

Packaged-food companies join recall of meat products.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

The nation's largest meat recall expanded to include processed foods that used the meat, as two of the world's largest packaged-food companies said yesterday that they are recalling products. [News Source]

Twelfth mad cow confirmed.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

A six-year-old dairy cow from Alberta was confirmed Tuesday to have mad cow disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said. [News Source]

New case of mad cow in Canada confirmed.
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 12:00 pm

Canadian officials confirmed a new case of mad cow disease Tuesday, the second such case in two months and the 12th since the disease was first discovered in Canada in 2003. [News Source]

Canadian food inspection agency confirms new case of mad cow disease (WDAM-TV Hattiesburg)
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 11:25 am

OTTAWA (AP) - Canadian officials are confirming a new case of mad cow disease. It's the second such case in two months and the 12th since the disease was first discovered in Canada in 2003. [News Source]

Canadian food inspection agency confirms new case of mad cow disease (WZZM 13 Grand Rapids)
Wednesday February 27th 2008, 11:10 am

Canadian officials are confirming a new case of mad cow disease. [News Source]