Court: US can block mad cow testing (San Francisco Chronicle) The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially deadly disease, against... [News Source]

Court: US can block mad cow testing (Las Vegas Sun) Fri, Aug 29, 2008 (9:21 a.m.) A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease. [News Source]

Appeals court says U.S. can block private mad cow testing (The Kansas City Star) WASHINGTON | A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a setback for Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, which wants to test all of its cows.. [News Source]

Court: US can block mad cow testing (Boston Herald) WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease. Because the Agriculture Department tests... [News Source]

Court: US can block mad cow testing (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially deadly disease, against a Kansas meat packer that wants to test all its animals. Larger meat packers opposed such testing. If Creekstone Farms Premium Beef began ... [News Source]

Court: US Can Block Mad Cow Testing (CBS News) A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease. [News Source]

U.S. can keep companies from testing for mad cow, court rules (USA Today) A federal appeals court says the government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease. [News Source]

In Animal Study Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions (Medical News Today) Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain diseases are transmitted in an effort to reduce this risk during blood transfusions. [News Source]

A novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains (PhysOrg) A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a prion protein characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual sheep scrapie cases. This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, may provide a novel method by which to study prion diversity and their possible changes during cross-species transmission. [News Source]