MBC staffers indicted over mad cow report. Prosecutors indicted four MBC program directors and a scriptwriter of a current affairs program, Thursday, for distorting facts with the intention to exaggerate the risk of mad cow disease associated with American beef. [News Source]

Farmed Fish May Pose Risk For Mad Cow Disease (Medical News Today) University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply. [News Source]

BSE prevention focus of new U of C research institute (AM770 CHQR) Thanks to a $15 Million dollar boost from the province and another $10 Million from private donations, the next major scientific breakthrough may happen at the University of Calgary. The cash is going toward a new research institute focused on infectious, untreatable and fatal conditions such as mad cow disease. U of C Vice President of Research, Rose Goldstein says it's important diseases that ... [News Source]

COMMENTARY: Livestock Producers Have Major Stake In Direction Of Commodity Programs (Yankton Press & Dakotan) With all of the challenges faced by the livestock sector over the last several years — bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), export bans, E. coli and other food borne diseases, uncertainty over the implementation of animal identification and country of origin labeling — the last thing they needed was a 250 percent increase in the cost of the grains and oilseeds they use as ... [News Source]

Farmed fish may transmit mad cow disease (New Kerala) Washington, June 17 : Farmed fish, if fed by-products rendered from cows, could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease-commonly known as mad cow disease. [News Source]