Cantwell says mad cow feed loopholes still aren&#39;t closed
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A year after the first US case of mad cow disease was reported, Sen. Maria Cantwell says the Food and Drug Administration still has not fulfilled its promise to tighten animal feed rules to help prevent future cases.
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Japan announced confirmation of its third case of mad cow disease this year, but a beef industry export official said he doesn&#39;t expect it to impact trade talks between Japan and the United States.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government and farmers are rejecting the prospect of a mass cull to protect the cattle industry from mad cow disease and to restore international confidence in Canadian beef.
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Final U.S. government tests on an  animal suspected of having mad cow disease were not yet  complete, the U.S. Agriculture Department said, with no  announcement on the results expected on Monday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Manhattan and mad cow may seem an unlikely combination but Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell will be mixing the two Saturday when he travels to New York City to meet his American counterpart to lobby for an end to the costly mad cow crisis.
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Benny Montague has raised cattle in West Texas for 35 years and believes he knows what's best for the nation's beef industry. With this weekend's confirmed case of mad cow disease in Canada, Montague and others in the nation's leading beef-producing state said the government is acting too hastily in lifting a ban on importing live cattle from the country. The ban &#151; lifted last week &#151; has been in place since the first confirmed case of the disease in Canada was found in May 2003.
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Leaders of Minnesota&#39;s beef industry are assuring the public that the meat supply is safe after federal officials announced that a second case of mad cow disease may have turned up in the United States.
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REGINA (CP) - Saskatchewan is considering a lawsuit against the federal government to press Ottawa to pick up the entire tab for the latest mad cow aid package rather than cost-share it with the provinces.
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The state&#39;s Animal Health Commissioner, George Teagarden, says the inconclusive test for Mad Cow Disease didn&#39;t come from Kansas.
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Japan's decision on reopening its market  to U.S. beef will not be affected by the U.S. decision to  reduce its mad cow testing program, although Tokyo still wants  Washington not to do so, Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa  said on Friday.
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Talks on resuming US beef imports to Japan hit a new snag when Tokyo rejected Washington's proposals for determining the age of cows to be exempted from tests for mad cow disease, officials said.
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Regulatory hurdles still to be jumped
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The nation&#39;s only confirmed case of mad cow was a dairy cow slaughtered in December in Moses Lake. State officials say they don&#39;t believe the latest case is from Washington, reports The Seattle Post Intelligencer.
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Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell will have to abide by campaign finance limits even though rival Mike McGavick donated $2 million to his campaign, the Federal Election Commission ruled Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The Agriculture Department said yesterday it might have discovered a second case of mad cow disease, renewing concerns about the safety of a staple of the United States&#39; diet and whether the government is moving aggressively enough to
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POCATELLO - While it&#39;s certainly not welcome news, the government&#39;s announcement Thursday that it is investigating a possible new case of mad cow disease has not shaken the Idaho beef industry.
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NEW YORK, (Aug. 30, 2004) - Cattle farmers and haulers finally looking for a quick end to a 15-month ban on live cattle exports to the US are out of luck after Canadian Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell