HK partially relaxes Canadian bone-in beef import suspension (People’s Daily) The Center for Food Safety of Hong Kong (CFS) announced Monday that the processing of applications for bone-in beef import from Canada would resume with immediate effect. "In view of Canada's implementation of enhanced control measures against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, we will partially lift the suspension of imports of Canadian bone-in beef," a CFS ... [News Source]

Normal ‘mad cow’ protein helps keep cells talking, study suggests (CBC) A group of German researchers may have figured out why a protein that can turn rogue and cause fatal illnesses such as mad cow disease exists in large quantities inside cows, humans and other animals. [News Source]

Experimental mad cow drug may not help much-study (AlertNet) Source: Reuters LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - The anti-malaria drug quinacrine does not appear to extend the lives of people with the human form of mad cow disease, despite encouraging results from experiments with ... [News Source]

Experimental mad cow drug may not help much: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The anti-malaria drug quinacrine does not appear to extend the lives of people with the human form of mad cow disease, despite encouraging results from experiments with mice, British researchers said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Normal ‘mad cow’ protein helps keep cells talking, study suggests (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) A group of German researchers may have figured out why a protein that can turn rogue and cause fatal illnesses such as mad cow disease exists in large quantities inside cows, humans and other animals. [News Source]

Primates abused? (The Daily Iberian) Primates tearing holes into their flesh, monkey psychosis and chimpanzees smashing to the ground after being shot with sedatives are some of the 338 Animal Welfare Act violations the Humane Society of the United States says it discovered during a nine-month undercover investigation of the New Iberia Research Center. [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) 11:56 p.m., Valley Cottage, carbon monoxide detector false alarm. [News Source]

Nelson: Food is national security item (Rapid City Journal) BELLE FOURCHE -- The domestic cattle industry has problems most Americans never hear about, and that's something that should concern everybody in Belle Fourche and the whole region, ranchers say. [News Source]

Rockland AM Report (The Journal News) 11:56 p.m., Valley Cottage, carbon monoxide detector false alarm. [News Source]