Beef from Tolleson plant mistakenly ends up in Japan (The Arizona Republic) Beef from a Tolleson meatpacking plant was rejected by Japan because it had not been ordered and did not meet Japanese standards. [News Source]

Meat Packer Admits Slaughter of Sick Cows (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest-ever meat recall grudgingly admitted that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply. [News Source]

Senators Call For Stiffer Slaughterhouse Penalties (CBS 2 Los Angeles) Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California have introduced a bill to stiffen penalties against slaughterhouses that illegally process cows too sick to stand. The legislation comes in response to the scandal over a Southern California slaughterhouse that improperly allowed so-called downer cattle into the food supply, leading to a recall of 143 million pounds of beef. [News Source]

Meat Packer Admits Slaughter of Sick Cows (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest-ever meat recall grudgingly admitted that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply. [News Source]

Senators want crackdown on violations of downer cow prohibitions (The Fresno Bee) Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California have introduced a bill to stiffen penalties against slaughterhouses that illegally process cows too sick to stand. [News Source]

What goes on plate isn’t always pretty. Gene Bauer discusses the use of antibiotics in the beef industry as well as attempts to get the Department of Agriculture to take a more vigorous stand on testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as mad cow disease. [News Source]

Californian beef plant tied to recall admits problems. The head of the California firm involved in the largest US meat recall in history took responsibility Wednesday for the problems at his facility and told lawmakers for the first time that meat from illegally processed cattle may have entered the food supply. [News Source]

Meat packer admits slaughter of sick cows. The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest meat recall denied under oath on Wednesday, but then grudgingly admitted, that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply. [News Source]

Meat producer admits that ‘downer’ cows entered food supply . After previous denials,the president of Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. acknowledged Wednesday that at least two "downer" cows depicted in hidden-camera videos appeared to have entered the US food supply. [News Source]

Meatpacker admits ailing cattle used at slaughterhouse. The head of the California company at the center of the nation's largest meat recall offered lawmakers conflicting testimony about whether sick cows were slaughtered for human consumption, at first denying, and then reluctantly admitting that ill cattle might have entered the food supply. [News Source]