BSE reduction plan delayed (KPAX Missoula) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will delay a plan introduced a year ago designed to reduce the risk of BSE, better known as mad cow disease, in cattle imported from Canada. [News Source]

Food safety trust faltering. In 1999 just 37 recalls were issued on a variety of foods and drugs. To date in 2009, the number of recalls totals more than 600, the vast majority of which are related to salmonella-tainted peanuts linked to the Peanut Corp. of America. [News Source]

Food safety trust faltering (The Florence Times-Daily) Peanuts and peanut products are back on store shelves months after one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history, but consumers still are buying with caution. [News Source]

Large-animal vet shortage plagues ranches (Helena Independent Record) HARDIN (AP) It is finger-numbing cold outside in a cow shed east of nowhere. Farm veterinarian Betsy Bialon is donning a pair of cheap shoulder-length disposable gloves, which she clips with surgical clamps to a poncho made from a brown leaf bag. [News Source]