<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Mad Cow Disease</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/madcow?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><description>Mad Cow Disease</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Says Man Died of Mad Cow Disease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64818-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64818-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Analysts said the discovery of a human case of mad cow disease in Japan may hamper efforts to resume beef imports from the United States.]]></description><author> Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Chief Sets Sights on Beef Exports]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33592-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33592-2005Jan24.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure Monday by pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad cow disease in this country in December 2003.]]></description><author> Christopher Lee</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Finds Third Case of Mad Cow Disease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1925-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1925-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Canadian officials have found a third animal infected with mad cow disease -- an almost 7-year-old beef cow with no known connection to the other infected cattle.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mixed Reaction on Canadian Beef]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45640-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45640-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Benny Montague has raised cattle in West Texas for 35 years and believes he knows what is best for the nation's beef industry.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada Is Checking Another Animal for Mad Cow Disease]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36182-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36182-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One day after the U.S. Agriculture Department announced that concern over mad cow disease should no longer keep the border closed to live cattle from Canada, the Ottawa government revealed yesterday that it has detected another suspected case in a dairy cow.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. to Reopen Border for Import of Some Canadian Cattle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35066-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35066-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[More than 19 months after a mad cow scare closed U.S. borders to Canadian cattle, the United States said Wednesday it will allow limited imports beginning in March.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Rules Out Mad Cow Disease in Animal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8130-2004Nov23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8130-2004Nov23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The result cheered the beef industry, which had braced itself to hear that a second case of mad cow disease had been discovered in the U.S.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan to Accept U.S. Beef Again]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57245-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57245-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Exports to Japan to resume under an agreement to ease a 10-month ban prompted by a case of mad cow disease in Washington state.]]></description><author> Daniel Goldstein and Hector Forster</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping Mad Cow Out of Cosmetics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43277-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43277-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Since mad cow disease turned up in the United States late last year, federal regulators have issued rules to prevent the spread of the fatal disease, focusing on limiting beef imports, testing and other measures to protect the domestic herd. Now, the FDA is addressing how the disease might be transmitted through cosmetics, soaps, dietary supplements and certain food items.]]></description><author> Cindy Skrzycki</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood Transfusion Linked to Mad Cow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43895-2004Aug5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43895-2004Aug5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A second person was infected with the human version of mad cow disease as the result of a contaminated blood transfusion.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors Found in USDA Mad Cow Identification]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50151-2004Jul14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50151-2004Jul14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Agriculture Department officials did not intentionally falsify records of a Washington state cow  found to be infected with mad cow disease, Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong told a congressional hearing.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA's Mad Cow Detection Challenged]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47947-2004Jul13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47947-2004Jul13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New witnesses have disputed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's official account that the only American animal found to have mad cow disease could not stand up or walk when it was slaughtered.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FDA Delays Mad Cow Feed Rules]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39952-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39952-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Agency  banned the use of brains and other cattle parts that could carry infectious agent from cosmetics and dietary supplements.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Expands Mad Cow Investigation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24409-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24409-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department's inspector general has agreed to examine the agency's decision last year to relax restrictions on trade in Canadian beef.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspected Mad Cow Case Is False Alarm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18833-2004Jun30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18833-2004Jun30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A cow suspected of having mad cow disease based on a new rapid screening test has turned out to be uninfected, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beef Business Bulks Back Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32797-2004Jun10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32797-2004Jun10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Facing the loss of a key export market for its short ribs when the mad cow scare temporarily paralyzed the American beef industry six months ago, Harris Ranch Beef Co. of Selma, Calif., began experimenting.]]></description><author> Margaret Webb Pressler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Plans Mad Cow Tests Nationwide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4754-2004May31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4754-2004May31.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department plans to test 5,000 to 10,000 Washington state cattle for mad cow disease as part of a $70 million effort to find out  whether the infection is present in the United States and, if so, at what level.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Says It Erred on Beef]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46562-2004May21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46562-2004May21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Agriculture Department officials acknowledged yesterday that the agency  quietly and improperly allowed millions of pounds of  Canadian "processed" beef into the United States, despite an often invoked ban against importing that type of meat.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[USDA Allowed Canadian Beef in Despite Ban]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41076-2004May19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41076-2004May19.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department allowed American meatpackers to resume imports of ground and other "processed" beef from Canada last September, just weeks after it publicly reaffirmed its ban on importing those products.]]></description><author> Marc Kaufman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure to Test Cow Called a USDA Error]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13031-2004May9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13031-2004May9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/madcow</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Infighting at the Agriculture Department led to the mix-up at a slaughterhouse where a sick cow was processed for pig feed rather than tested for mad cow disease, an official at the slaughterhouse said.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>