DA lifts ban on Aussie meat, bone meal feeds imports (ABS-CBNNEWS.com) The Philippines has lifted the temporary ban on importation of Australian meat and bone meal (MBM) feeds after international veterinary authorities certified that such products are now free of the "mad cow" disease. [News Source]

Gov’t Minister Defends Decision To Open S. Korean Market To U.S. (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) South Korea's agriculture minister on Thursday defended his stance to allow U.S. beef to be sold in the country by stressing the need to follow set international standards. [News Source]

New Pan-Provincial Vaccine Enterprise Announces Board Members, Vaccine Targets (Newswise) Scientific leaders from three of Canada's foremost public health vaccine research agencies will gather on the University of Saskatchewan campus tomorrow to officially launch the $25.5-million Pan-Provincial Vaccine Enterprise (PREVENT), a new national vaccine commercialization consortium. [News Source]

Mad cow panic (JoongAng Daily) Some television broadcasters are showing programs that make people worry about mad cow disease just as the resumption of beef imports from the United States nears. [News Source]

Agriculture lifts ban on Australian cattle meal (Yehey!) The ban on importation of meat and bone meal (MBM) feeds from Australia has been lifted by the Department of Agriculture after international veterinary authorities have certified that such products are now free of the mad cow disease. [News Source]

Beef recall spotlights real cost of cheap school lunches. As schools push to satisfy growing demands to squeeze healthier foods onto lunch trays and with the recall of beef from suppliers of the National School Lunch Program, critics are saying it's time to change how the program works. [News Source]

Thousands commemorate Labor Day (The Manila Times) Labor Day protest rallies were held yesterday in various parts of the country, especially Metro Manila, but the national police chief, Director Gen. Avelino Razon, said no violent incidents were reported. [News Source]

Live performances (Daytona Beach News-Journal) Halifax Area [News Source]

Award honors his global vet service (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Back in the mid-1970s, when a young French veterinarian named Bernard Vallat used modern medicine to cure livestock in Chad and other rural areas of Africa, the villagers he lived among thought he had supernatural powers. [News Source]

DA lifts ban on importation of Australian meat (GMANews.TV via Yahoo! Philippines News) MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Agriculture (DA) has lifted the ban on the importation of meat from Australia after international veterinary authorities certified that meat products coming from Australia are now free of the "mad cow" infection. [News Source]