Personal Injury Law

South Korea Putting Its TV People In Jail; Wishing It Were So In USA?!!

Posted on April 28, 2009
 If distortion and intentionally exaggerating were crimes if carried out on television in the United States, it is a pretty good bet that we'd have to lock up the likes of Glenn Beck and Chris Matthews and all the ladies on The View would have to be locked up too...

FDA Delays Implementing New BSE Rule

Posted on April 14, 2009
 You've got a couple more days to submit written comments to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on the new so-called "BSE" rule requiring  livestock renderers and animal feed manufacturers to remove the brain and spinal cord from cows 30 months and older...

Roane County Deaths Blame On Classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Posted on March 24, 2009
After reporting four cases of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) last year, Tennessee health officials are saying the death of a Kingston woman in February and a Rockwood man earlier this month are also due to prion diseases.  We'd noted in our previous posting that one death and a critical  illness then --both in Roane County, Tennessee-- had generated some interesting local comments...

Is There A CJD Cluster In Roane County, Tennessee?

Posted on March 16, 2009
These days, it's often the comments to the news, that makes the most interesting reading. For example take the public feedback that a story on the WBIR-TV website in Knoxville, TN. The story about one death caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in nearby Roane County, TN brings in 2 responses from individuals who say CJD was the cause of death for each of  their grandmothers in Roane, TN; one who says his father, a Roane resident, was just diagnosed with the disease, and another reader who says he's heard of several other CJD deaths in the county...

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Alzheimer's And Mad Cow/CJD Link Discovered By Yale

Posted on March 01, 2009

Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Support Mother's Campaign For Answers About Mad Cow Disease

Posted on February 24, 2009
Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, has often made life difficult for the government in London. He is doing so again by supporting Christine Lord, the mother seeking answers from the government about her son Andy's death from Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob (vCJD)...

Cattle States Get Ready To Deal With New Mad Cow Regulation

Posted on February 16, 2009
Beef may be what's for dinner, but cattlemen say the economics of their business just don't pencil out anymore. They say that's why the cattle population in the U.S. has dipped to 42 million, and the number of new calves has not been so low since 1951...

Another Mad Cow & A Possible Blood Test From Canada

Posted on February 01, 2009
 Canada continues to make Mad Cow news. The 15th case of Mad Cow disease was discovered in Canada, in the form of a seven year old dairy cow that was determined be suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Canadian agricultural and health officials were quick to point out that no part of the ill cow entered the human food or animal feed systems...

Industry Will Remember Veneman's Role In Dealing With Mad Cow

Posted on January 20, 2009
 "We had three Secretaries of Agriculture during the Bush administration. [Anne] Veneman will likely be remembered for her response to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which was then and is still incredibly damaging to the industry despite the fact that the enhanced testing protocol she initiated eventually exonerated the U...

Mother Of vCJD Victim Says There's Been A Mad Cow Cover-Up In UK

Posted on January 12, 2009
The United Kingdom's chief adviser on vCJD, the human form of Mad Cow disease, believes it is possible that the UK will experience a second wave of death from the brain-reducing prions in the years ahead.  An estimated 50 to 350 additional vCJD deaths are predicted...

No Mad Cow Disease In Iowa, Says Widow Of Brain Disease Victim

Posted on January 05, 2009
 The Charles City, Iowa man who died on New Year's Eve will go down as a victim of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; and NOT  the variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, linked to eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease...

Asian Countries With Mad Cow Concerns Favor Younger Cattle

Posted on December 12, 2008
Quick!  Name the Asian country that says Smithfield Beef plant in Wisconsin is not turning out meat that is fit for export to their nation?   South Korea?  Wrong! Sure those South Koreans made it difficult.   They damn near brought down their government over a Mad Cow scare that was way over the top...

More Mad Cow Cases Predicted For the UK

Posted on December 08, 2008
 Scientists in the United Kingdom say there could be a "second wave" of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease -- the human form of the mad cow disease -- after discovering that some people have a genetic predisposition to the disease. The scientists say a person's individual DNA could affect the length of time that the disease can remain in the body before symptoms develop...

Atypical Prion Strain of Mad Cow More Virulent, Says Dr. Qingzhong Kong

Posted on December 04, 2008
When the subject is Mad Cow disease, you do not want to find out that it can get worse. That, however, appears to be what researcher Qingzhong Kong from Case Western University had to tell an audience at Kansas State recently. Dr. Kong said an atypical prion strain of mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BS, is more virulent than the classical strain...

Here Is Story on Canada's Mad Cow No. 15

Posted on November 18, 2008
Whitney McFerron at Bloomberg News is following the discovery of the 15th Mad Cow in Canada since May 2003. Canada has this routine down pretty well.  It just issued  a report on the investigation into the likely cause of Mad Cow No. 13, 14 is still under investigation, and 15 was found on a farm in British Columbia...

Study Finds French Covered Up Their Mad Cow Problem In Early 1990s

Posted on November 07, 2008
Why did nine French citizens die from variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of Mad Cow Disease or BSE, between 1996 and 2006?   Mad Cow Disease or BSE was discovered in England in 1986, resulting in the slaughter of  herds by the millions and bans on British beef exports that lasted for years...

U.S. Meat Export Federation Also Wants Less BSE Testing, Especially By Japan

Posted on October 19, 2008
Everyone, at one time or another, has used "white noise" as a sleep aid.   National Public Radio (NPR) tries to keep it a secret, but its over-night broadcasts are highly effective "white noise" for many people. The inclusion of the BBC reports are very useful to those seeking shut-eye...

Europe Sees No Need For Testing Brains Of Younger Cattle

Posted on October 15, 2008
Less testing of cattle brains for BSE is being recommended today to the Board of the Food Standards Agency of the European Commission.   Under current regulations, the brains of all cattle aged over 30 months are tested for BSE before the beef is allowed into the food chain...

BSE Costing U.S. Beef Exporters Billions of Dollars

Posted on October 08, 2008
The 2003 discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow of Canadian origin in a Washington State cattle herd cost U.S. beef exporters $11 billion between 2004 and 2007, a new report says. Because many countries restricted imports of U...

Italy Finds Mad Cow No. 142; First in Two Years

Posted on September 30, 2008
  The first case of Mad Cow disease in Italy in two years has been uncovered at a research laboratory in the northern city of Turin, it was reported on Sept...

Spain Reports Mother-Son Mad Cow Deaths

Posted on September 24, 2008
Spain is reporting on the first mother-son deaths due to the human form of Mad Cow disease, reports CNN's Madrid Bureau.  From that report: The mother of a Spanish man who died from the human form of mad cow disease has also died from the illness, Spain's Ministry of Health said Wednesday...

Genetic link to mad cow found at Kansas State University

Posted on September 15, 2008
We are adding Rick Plumlee at The Wichita Eagle to our list to our list to check out on the weekends.  For some reason, some of the best stories relating to food safety and agriculture are held for weekend publication.  This one ran Saturday...

Did USDA Act Only to Silence Creekstone?

Posted on September 04, 2008
Case Western Law Professor Jonathan Adler writes on the widely read blog called The Volokh Conspiracy.  He's set off an interesting discussion over there with a column titled: WAS CREEKSTONE REALLY ABOUT SPEECH?  Professor Adler raises the question of whether "the USDA was less concerned about the testing than it was about what Creekstone might say about it...

USDA Wins Right To Withhold Mad Cow Test Kits

Posted on September 02, 2008
When is a test a treatment?   Whenever two of three federal judges say so.  That at least would seem to be the answer coming out of Creekstone Farms lengthy attempt to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow it to test all of its animals for Mad Cow disease...

Mexico Closes Its Border To Canada's Cattle

Posted on August 22, 2008
Today's Star Phoenix reports this: Mexico will ban cattle from Alberta from crossing its border until officials find out more about what Canada is doing to prevent mad cow disease, a Canadian industry official said Thursday. The move comes after Canada found its 14th case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in a six-year-old cow last week in Alberta, the largest cattle-producing province...

Canada Reports 14th Case of Mad Cow Disease

Posted on August 16, 2008
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a six-year-old beef cow from Alberta. No part of the animal’s carcass entered the human food or animal feed systems. It is the 14th case of BSE or Mad Cow Disease in Canada...

Mad Cow Restrictions Lead To Nordic Sperm Shortage In U.S.

Posted on August 13, 2008
About 100,000 South Koreans hit the bricks almost every night for two months because, they claimed, U.S. beef imports came with too great a risk for Mad Cow disease.   Now, however, women in the market for Nordic sperm claim that restrictions to protect Americans from the human variety of Mad Cow are going too far...

Dallas City Packing Failed To Remove Tonsils In Cowheads: FSIS Forces Recall

Posted on August 07, 2008
Just under one million pounds of cattle heads produced over the past 18 months by Dallas-based Dallas City Packing Inc. are being recalled because tonsils were not completely removed. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, 941,271 pounds of cattle heads produced as long ago as Feb...

Canada links 12th case of mad cow to infected feed

Posted on August 03, 2008
The six-year old Alberta dairy cow found to be suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in February was the victim of infected feed, according to the official investigation. It was Canada's 12th case of mad cow disease since 2003 and infected feed has been blamed for all previous cases as well...

Elderly Cape Cod Woman Suffers From CJD: Did Texas Man Die From nvCJD?

Posted on July 26, 2008
Straight Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease usually affects older people and quickly progresses through dementia, movement disorders and ultimately death.   About 300 Americans die from CJD each year. So-called new variant (nv) Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can affect people of all ages and can be caused by eating meat from cows who ate "slaughterhouse waste" like brains or spinal cords--cows infected with mad cow disease...

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