US has little beef with dodgy cattle. The beef recall has made a big noise in America, but it lacks the fire that would have attended a scandal of this scale in Europe. The hot topics of the day in America remain the economy and immigration. [News Source]

It’s time to beef up food safety regulations. Nauseating as it was, the recent record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled "downer" cattle to our nation's children and others should come as little surprise. [News Source]

Dirty scalpels bring 5,000 ops to a halt. All hospitals used to clean their surgical equipment on the premises. But fears over hospital superbugs, the possible spread of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, and growing commercialisation in the NHS means about a quarter of hospitals have now contracted out the process to outside firms. [News Source]

How ‘downer’ cows enter food chain. The videotape of a downer cow being slaughtered has focused new light on an old problem: the use of dairy cows in beef production. [News Source]