Inspectors Verify Abuse Of Cows in California
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Employees at the now-closed Southern California slaughterhouse where inhumane treatment of cows was captured on a gruesome undercover video committed "egregious violations" of federal animal care regulations, the U.S. Agriculture Department has determined.
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The US government is investigating a possible new case of mad cow disease, officials said on Thursday, rattling the US cattle industry, food processors and beef-oriented restaurant chains.
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Federal officials Thursday announced the possible discovery of a case of mad cow disease, which sent a shock through the cattle business even before a final result was in.
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The California produce company at the center of the recent E. coli outbreak announced steps Thursday to improve its food safety inspections.
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Federal regulators have accused University of California researchers of mistreating animals used in medical experiments over a three-year period, according to a complaint made public Tuesday by an animal-rights group.
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A possible new case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States, the Agriculture Department said yesterday. The agency said the brain of a cow tested positive three times
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An Iowa lab is working to confirm initial tests indicating a sickly US animal had mad cow disease, 11 months after the nation&#39;s first case emerged in Washington state.
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Brain tissue samples from an American woman who died with a brain-wasting condition believed to be related to mad cow disease are being sent for testing, Washington state health officials said Friday.
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A California slaughterhouse yesterday fired two employees, and the Agriculture Department opened a formal investigation following revelations that the plant used inhumane and what appear to be illegal methods to get sick and hobbled cows past federal inspectors.
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A final laboratory test has confirmed an Alberta dairy cow had mad cow disease, the second case Canada has found in its herd, an industry source briefed by veterinary officials said on Sunday.
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The Agriculture Department said the brain of a cow tested positive three times for the presence of the proteins that cause the disease.
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Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary...
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California produce growers and processors worked to draw up new food-safety measures Thursday as government investigators trying to pinpoint the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak narrowed their search to three counties.
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The butcher at the centre of an E.coli outbreak claims his firm regularly passed environmental inspections.
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By Tim Moran, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 6--Jake Verburg has been running a dairy labor camp for years -- he just didn't know it. And now that he knows, he's not too happy about it.   Verburg operates Verburg and Son dairy west of Modesto, with 320 acres and 800 cows.
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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Lax oversight by the U.S.  Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were  to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products  in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban, federal  investigators said on Wednesday.