Goats ill with scrapie destroyed in Ottawa County (The Grand Rapids Press) Five goats from an Ottawa County farm have been diagnosed with a fatal brain disease similar to mad cow in cattle and chronic wasting disease in deer, but state agriculture officials said it is not known to pose a human health threat and does not portend a widespread outbreak. [News Source]

Recent beef recall a ‘communications nightmare.’ The recent recall of beef from a California slaughter plant was a communications nightmare because information often reached parents and the media before school food service directors, a group told Congress yesterday. [News Source]

USDA official raises figure on recalled beef already eaten by schoolchildren to 30 million pounds. Schoolchildren have eaten about 30 million pounds of beef targeted in the nation's largest food recall -- 10 million pounds more than previous estimates. [News Source]

Tracing beef supply is hurdle for U.S. The U.S. Agriculture Department isn't sure how many schools have been affected by the largest meat recall in the nation, and about 10% of the recalled beef still hasn't been tracked down, an official told the House Education Committee. [News Source]