US taking another look at Scotland’s haggis (The Daily Record) EDINBURGH, Scotland — Just how risky is the Scottish national dish? At the request of Scottish officials, the U.S. government will sort that out as it reviews its ban on haggis, a sort of sausage made by rolling cooked sheep’s offal — the liver, heart and lungs — in oats and pepper, then stuffing it into [...] [News Source]

Pall Corporation Launches Next Generation Blood Filter that Simultaneously Reduces Prions and Leukocytes (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.----Pall Corporation , a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the launch of the Leukotrap® Affinity Plus Prion and Leukocyte Reduction Filter System. [News Source]

EU FTA quest to test political will (The Japan Times) Japan goes into semiannual regulatory reform talks with the European Union this week, with some participants expecting to make headway on bilateral free trade. But others believe hurdles remain, saying the form of economic partnership the 27-member European economic bloc wants, based on wide-ranging standardization, does not necessarily match what Tokyo seeks, which is a conventional free-trade ... [News Source]

US taking another look at Scotland’s haggis (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Just how risky is the Scottish national dish? At the request of Scottish officials, the U.S. government will sort that out as it reviews its ban on haggis, a sort of sausage made by rolling cooked sheep's offal -- the liver, heart and lungs -- in oats and pepper, then stuffing it into beef intestine and boiling it. [News Source]

US taking another look at Scotland’s haggis (AP via Yahoo! News) Just how risky is the Scottish national dish? [News Source]

Soil Association confronts image of organic food as elitist and expensive. In the beginning the organic movement struggled to shed its image of wonky carrots sold by hippies. Now it has the opposite problem: associated with high-priced jars of chutney and biscuits sold by slick marketing men. [News Source]

Humane Society offers wording on livestock treatment (The Toledo Blade) By JIM PROVANCE BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU CHIEF COLUMBUS — Ohio farmers may have won the first skirmish, but animal-rights groups are betting they’ll win the war over the treatment of livestock. A group led by the Washington-based Humane Society of the United States has submitted language to Ohio Attorney Richard Cordray for a proposed constitutional amendment for the November ballot that would ... [News Source]

Stem Cell Therapy International completes merger with Histostem of South Korea (News-Medical-Net) Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. announced that it has completed its merger with Histostem Ltd. of South Korea ("Histostem"), forming one of the first fully merged Pacific Rim stem cell companies and cord blood repositories with a U.S. entity. [News Source]

Cooked Monkey Among The Unusual Items Smuggled Into Dulles Airport (WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.) U.S. Customs and Border Protection says people will go to great lengths to smuggle in illegal drugs, food and other prized possessions. [News Source]