Beef Recall: Current Lists of Restaurants, Stores (FOX 11 News Los Angeles) The California Department of Health has released a new retail distribution list of recalled raw and frozen beef products from Hallmark Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino. The list currently has approximately 7,500 names and includes restaurants and stores. [News Source]

Beef Recall: Current Lists of Restaurants, Resellers (FOX 11 News Los Angeles) See the current California retail distribution list of recalled raw and frozen beef products from Hallmark Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino. The list currently has approximately 7,500 names. [News Source]

Yoshinoya to Revive 24-Hour “Gyudon” Sales from Thurs. (Japan Corporate News) Yoshinoya to Revive 24-Hour "Gyudon" Sales from Thurs. Tokyo, Mar 17, 2008 (Jiji Press) - Major Japanese restaurant chain operator Yoshinoya Holdings Co. said Monday it will revive sales of "gyudon" beef bowls for 24 hours a day from Thursday. [News Source]

Medical College of Wisconsin discovery alters longstanding concept of fixed protein structure (EurekAlert!) The thousands of proteins found in nature are simply strings of amino acids, assembled by genes, and scientists have long believed that they automatically fold themselves into uniquely fixed, 3-dimensional shapes to fire the engine of life. In the era of genetic research, identifying those shapes and their functions has become a worldwide focus of biomedical science. [News Source]

Sick cows entered food supply, plant owner says (Orange County Register) Steven Mendell of Corona del Mar makes the admission after video contradicts his prepared testimony. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly) Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market been this shaken. [News Source]

Commodities: Up on the farm (Canadian Business) Investors looking for the latest way to play the global commodity boom might suspect it’s time to forget $100 oil or $1,000 gold and start thinking about wheat, corn, soybeans and other agricultural products. [News Source]

USDA beef recall creates challenge (Tri-State Neighbor) Bo Reagan concedes the beef industry is facing a huge challenge after the USDA recalled 143 million pounds of meat produced at a California plant. [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) DWI charge: Ramapo police responded to Church Road in Airmont for a motor vehicle accident at 2:35 a.m. yesterday, Sgt. Ken Joyce said. An investigation found both drivers to be intoxicated, the police said. [News Source]

Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer) Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system. [News Source]