Van Loan runs on Tory record (yorkregion.com) Advocate [News Source]

Mad-cow ban cost U.S. $11 billion in beef exports. U.S. ranchers and processors lost almost $11 billion in revenue between 2004 and 2007 after major importers barred U.S. beef following the discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, according to a government report released October 7. [News Source]

FDA to review genetically engineered farm animals (AG Weekly) WASHINGTON - Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. [News Source]

Made in USA: Pork producers, retailers, packers required to use COOL labeling (Creston News Advertiser) Knowing where a product is made is not a new idea in many industries, but as of Sept. 30 it is a new mandate in the pork industry. [News Source]

LIVE ACTIVE CULTURES (Orlando Weekly) For this week’s installment of Live Active Cultures, I’m sharing a sneak peek at a few theatrical debuts: one, a just-opened production of a show brand-new to Orlando; the second, an about-to-open return of an old favorite; the final, a foretaste of a future show that takes us back into the distant past. [News Source]

Tracking down the cause of mad cow disease (EurekAlert!) ( Wiley-Blackwell ) A team headed by Christian F. W. Becker at the TU Munich and Peter H. Seeberger at the ETH Zurich developed a new general method for the synthesis of anchored proteins, such as GPI-anchored prions, which cause scrapie and mad cow disease. [News Source]

[video ] Dr. Tony Milici, Chairman and CEO of GeneThera, Inc., Discusses Worldwide Rights to E.Coli Vaccine on … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. , a molecular biotechnology company, today announced that the company's Chairman and CEO, Dr. Tony Milici, is featured in an exclusive interview on WallSt.net's 3-Minute Press Show. [News Source]

Financial crisis (The Virginia Gazette) “Could an honest local business owner with good credit tell me that he or she can no longer get credit? Could a bank manager honestly tell me that the bank no longer has money to lend? If this crisis had come last year or next, it might be more believable. But after the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome scare, Y2K crisis, bird flu, mad cow disease, global freezing and population bomb, I feel ... [News Source]

U.S. Beef Exporters Losing Billions After Mad Cow Scare (The Epoch Times) Following a 2003 case of mad cow disease spotted in a U.S. cattle herd, U.S. beef processors and beef cattle ranchers are losing billions of dollars in exports each year, a report from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) concluded. [News Source]