Panel eyes easing domestic BSE tests, U.S. beef ban A health ministry food safety panel began deliberations Monday on easing screening requirements for domestic beef and import restrictions on U.S. and Canadian beef that were imposed over fears of mad cow disease. The ministry is considering raising the lower age limit on testing of slaughtered domestic cattle for the brain-wasting disease from the current 21 months or older. It is the first ... [News Source]

Panel eyes easing domestic BSE tests, U.S. beef ban A health ministry food safety panel began deliberations Monday on easing screening requirements for domestic beef and import restrictions on U.S. and Canadian beef that were imposed over fears of mad cow disease. The ministry is considering raising the lower age limit on testing of slaughtered domestic cattle for the brain-wasting disease from the current 21 months or older. It is the first ... [News Source]

Gov’t panel discusses easing domestic BSE tests, U.S. beef import ban. Japan's health ministry began deliberations Monday at a food safety panel on easing screening requirements for domestic beef and import restrictions on U.S. and Canadian beef that were imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Gov’t panel discusses easing domestic BSE tests, U.S. beef import ban. Japan's health ministry began deliberations Monday at a food safety panel on easing screening requirements for domestic beef and import restrictions on U.S. and Canadian beef that were imposed over fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

It’s time to review the chart on sick buildings. A “thin layer of green sprayed” over our cities won’t solve the many health issues associated with the contemporary urban environment, curator Mirko Zardini said this week as a new exhibition opened at the Canadian Centre of Architecture. [News Source]

What’s Hot | Liz Langley | Edgar Allan Poe,Gloria Steinem and Cassadaga Dance With Spirit The Devil Chair This weekend the Dance with Spirit at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, the Orlando Public Library presents Mad Cow Theatre for the Edgar Allan Poe "Big Read" and Rollins College Winter Park Institute hosts Gloria Steinem. photo by Keith Johnson Orlando writer Liz Langley has a preview of this weekends events around central Florida. Everything from the Dance with Spirit at Cassadaga ... [News Source]

Slowly But Surely, American Beef Returns to Japan Two cases of mad cow in America touched off a maddening overreaction in Japan. It's taken several years, but Japanese fears seem to be easing and U.S. beef exports to Japan are bouncing back. [News Source]

Mad Cow Theatre gives free Edgar Allan Poe reading The name Edgar Allan Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." [News Source]

Theater review: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ from Mad Cow Theatre "The Drowsy Chaperone" is a love letter to the good (and the bad) of musical theater told through the eyes of one devotee, speaking for all the fans of the genre. [News Source]

Mad Cow Theatre gives free Edgar Allan Poe reading The name Edgar Allan Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." [News Source]