KOREA: MBC offers apology over US beef report (AsiaMedia) MBC, a Seoul-based broadcaster, has offered an apology over its controversial report about the danger of mad cow disease that triggered public uproar against U.S. beef imports. [News Source]

U.S Beef Exports to Russia Strengthen (The Morning News) SPRINGDALE -- Russians have rediscovered a taste for U.S. beef in recent months after going without it for almost four years. [News Source]

A bloody good week at UMSL (The Current Online) Usually, the activities planned for Welcome Back Week revolve around fun, games, and an abundance of free food. The result, hopefully, is that UM-St. Louis students become excited to begin the new school year and will continue to be involved on campus. Every once in a while, however, there is an event that asks students to give back to their community. [News Source]

Health bill factors in bio-terror. Realising the potential of terrorist attacks, the government has named bioterrorism as a major public health challenge under its brand new legislation on the subject. [News Source]

Former Chino slaughterhouse worker to testify against managers. The attorney for a former slaughterhouse worker at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. said his client has agreed to testify against company managers in exchange for as little as seven months of house arrest for prodding downer cows. [News Source]

Time to digest new food scare. Consumers are on edge following an outbreak of the bacteria listeria, which has killed 11 people in Ontario, one in British Columbia and sickened dozens of others. [News Source]

GPUs contributing petaflops to science research (MacNN) Stanford's Folding@home (FAH) distributed computing project, with the help of GPUs, has produced information contained in over 50 peer-reviewed published scientific papers. The scientists are using the idle power of millions of processors from users all over the world to help study protein folding. A free program can be downloaded that will use an idle computer or Playstation 3 to run scientific ... [News Source]

Delaware has been CWD-free for five years (Dover Post) Traplines on Cypress Creek looks at the concerns involving Chronic Wasting Disease in whitetail deer, the No. 1 big game animal in America. [News Source]

NDP point finger in tainted meat case (Guelph Mercury) Federal NDP candidate Tom King says the present-Conservative and past-Liberal governments in Ottawa are to blame for the deadly outbreak of listeriosis, but his opponents say it isn't true their parties cut funding for food inspection. [News Source]

Lopez: Vegetarian flavors from Europe (Midland Daily News)     Last month, I wrote a bit about a vegetarian dish I had prepared for a going-away party. Over the years, I have come across more and more people who have either chosen to eat less meat or to eat none at all. [News Source]