FDA delays new BSE-related feed ban 2 months (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) Apr 7, 2000 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed yesterday to delay by another 2 months a long-planned ban on the use of certain cattle materials in any animal feed, a measure designed to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. [News Source]

USDA to up international food aid (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The U.S. Department of Agriculture is almost doubling its support for a $95.5 million food aid program that focuses on hungry children in poor countries. [News Source]

Isas: rates make a mockery of a scheme designed to encourage us to save (Daily Telegraph) It is 10 years since the Government boasted that Individual Savings Accounts Isas would kickstart a savings culture. But their success is highly questionable. [News Source]

Large Number Of New Prions Discovered: Scientists Redefining What It Means To Be A Prion (Science Daily) Special proteins known as prions, which are perhaps best known as the agents of mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases, can also serve as an important source of beneficial variation in nature. Researchers have found a large number of new prions, greatly expanding scientists' notion of how important prions might be in normal biology and demonstrating that they play many and varied roles in ... [News Source]

World Health Day (NBC Philadelphia) April 7 is World Health Day and you may be wondering... who cares? In short, we all should. [News Source]