McKinney man recalls fatal drunk driving accident (McKinney Courier-Gazette) It was Dec. 7, 2002 when Mike Cieminski’s life was forever changed. Cieminski, his wife Lisa and their six-year-old daughter, Molly, were driving home from Presbyterian Hospital of Allen when the family was struck by a drunk driver. [News Source]

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-03-26 23:57 GMT: Rice asks SKorea to lift US beef import restrictions (Interactive Investor) WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged South Korea to lift import restrictions on US beef to help facilitate a free trade agreement signed by the two allies. [News Source]

France curtsies to her oldest enemy (Financial Times) The history of Anglo-French relations is littered with grand promises of fresh starts that quickly turn mouldy. [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]

Beef recall case: Cattle abuse wasn’t a rare occurrence. The abuse of non-ambulatory cattle at a California slaughterhouse has renewed calls for a ban on the slaughter of such animals, and newly released government records show such mishandling in past years was more than a rare occurrence. [News Source]

Clearing the Bar (Medical Device Link) At the present moment in time, the future of bar codes in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry is appropriate to contemplate. Never before has there been so much technology ready to implement. [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]

Farmer sell steaks from his truck - His response to mad cow disease (Sherbrooke Record) When the mad cow scare struck Canada in 2003, beef producers were devastated, but it led one man to transform his operation in a manner he would never have imagined — and meat-eaters in Richmond and Shefford are the better off for it. [News Source]

Now for entente cordiale (Independent) The entente cordiale has made Britain and France, in theory at least, good neighbours for more than a century. [News Source]

RATE THIS ARTICLE (Crosswalk.com) (CNSNews.com) - The American Red Cross says it will not publicly release information about what happened to about 1,000 units of suspect blood that were subject to a recall and caused the organization to be fined more than $4 million by the Food and Drug Administration. [News Source]