Personal Injury Law

The Arizona Republic Says "Inspect the System"

Posted on February 24, 2008
Editorial writers at The Arizona Republic Sunday gave their readers a lot to think about when it comes to food safety and preventing Mad Cow disease.They said our belief that food is safe and our assumption that animals are treated humanely were both dashed by the Chino slaughterhouse scandal that led to the largest beef recall in U...

Federal Judge Asked To Close Border To Older Cattle

Posted on February 21, 2008
A federal judge in South Dakota soon will making a ruling that could again close the United States to the import of all cattle from Canada.   American cattlemen, who say they just want to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) out of the USA , are trying to shutdown the program that allows cattle older than 30 months to come south of the border...

143.3 Million Pounds Of Beef Recalled From Chino

Posted on February 17, 2008
After the nation's school districts have been stuck holding their illegal meat in public freezers for more than two weeks, the Chino slaughterhouse has finally done the obvious and issued a recall.The Food Safety & Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture announced  on Sunday afternoon that 143,383,823 pounds of raw and frozen beef products from Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company of Chino, CA were being "voluntarily recalled...

Small Fish Charged in Chino Slaugherhouse Cruelty

Posted on February 15, 2008
Meet Michael A. Ramos,  San Bernardino County District Attorney.  He has just filed criminal charges in the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company's mistreatment of downer cows.We are not, at least at this point, going to see Westland/Hallmark President Steve Mendell being taken away in handcuffs...

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Small Fish Charged in Chino Slaughterhouse Cruelty

Posted on February 15, 2008
Meet Michael A. Ramos,  San Bernardino County District Attorney.  He has just filed criminal charges in the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company's mistreatment of downer cows.We are not, at least at this point, going to see Westland/Hallmark President Steve Mendell being taken away in handcuffs...

Mad Cow Disease Claims Suffolk Man

Posted on February 14, 2008
Suffolk & Essex online today reports that Guy Massey, a 53-year old Suffolk businessman,  died on Jaunary 28, 2008 from the human form of mad cow's disease.  He died just ten weeks after he was told he had the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and eight months before he was due to marry later this year...

Is Schafer "Swiftboating" On Chino Slaughterhouse?

Posted on February 12, 2008
The Humane Society caught the Chino, CA slaughterhouse processing "downer" cows; breaking a bunch of federal laws.   It was more than an embarrassment to the United States Department of Agriculture as not only was its Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) at Chino not on the job; but federal food buyers were busy buying all the beef produced by the plant for the school lunch program...

USDA Shuts Down School Lunch Program's Beef Source

Posted on February 06, 2008
Schools across America were left pulling beef from their lunch menus after Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing was caught mistreating "downer" cows.  In doing their reports on the local school districts, most television stations showed some images from the Humane Society video that was taken by an undercover operative...

Chino Packing House Caught Taking Downers To Slaughter

Posted on January 30, 2008
Westland Meat Company/Hallmark Meat Packing own and operate a slaughterhouse in Chino, CA that they say has operated “under the strictest possible standards for animal welfare, occupational health and safety and food safety precautions for 10 years...

Mad Cow At Center of Tracking Debate

Posted on January 22, 2008
If cattle in the United States ever started showing up with Mad Cow disease in any significant numbers, the outcry for locating and tracking histories on the impacted animals would probably be over-whelming. After 9-11, we all recall the sharp elbows that were exchanged over who did and who did not “connect the dots...

Mad Cow All But Ruled Out

Posted on January 16, 2008
If you want to catch the world's attention,  there's probably not a better place to do it than the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.   The death last week of a Kansas man due to the rare brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease caught  the Exchange's attention...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Kills Kansas Man

Posted on January 14, 2008
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease has taken the life of a 53-year old Colby, Kansas man.  He died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 at  the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita where he where he had been a patient since December. .Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a rare disease that affects the central nervous system and turns brain tissue spongy...

Chronic Wasting Disease Spreading in Nebraska

Posted on January 04, 2008
 Nebraska game officials have found 18 deer with chronic wasting disease out of  3,310 tested.  Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible neurological disease of deer and elk that produces small lesions in brains of infected animals...

Senators Want To Keep Mad Cows Out of US

Posted on January 03, 2008
         The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)  is going with a rule-change that makes it more likely that a "mad cow" could make its way into the United States, but two powerful Western Senators are trying to block it...

CDC Funds Center for Mad Cow

Posted on December 31, 2007
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University is getting $27.5 million from the Centers for Disease Control--enough to continue its work for another five years.   The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Sarah Jane Tribble wrote that: "The center became a national hot spot when mad cow disease, which is the newest strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, hit global headlines several years ago...

Mad Cow Walks On PM's Story

Posted on December 19, 2007
Canada's new Prime Minister Stephen Harper wanted to put food safety front and center this week, but he probably did not want help from an aged Alberta cow who showed up with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).Here's how it played out.  On Monday, the PM announced the Government of Canada would be taking preventive measures in 2008 to ensure food safety...

Feeding cattle with pet food risks Mad Cow Disease

Posted on December 19, 2007
Utah's ranchers got a stern warning yesterday from the state veterinarian: feeding cattle with pet food could cause Mad Cow Disease.   Dawn House at the Salt Lake Tribune reported  that high hay costs and burned out ranges could tempt some ranchers into using pet food linked to Mad Cow...

Japan blames Dutch for 1995-6 Mad Cow Outbreaks

Posted on December 17, 2007
Phyllis Entis isn't buying the single milk substitute theory as the reason why 33 cows in Japan came down with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ten years ago. The Japanese Agricultural Ministry released an investigative report Friday (12/14/07) that blamed Dutch-produced animal fat powder that was used as a milk substitute for the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease in Hokkaido and Kanto...

Cold Cash Follows Mad Cow

Posted on December 06, 2007
We’re coming up on the 5th anniversary of the discovery of Mad Cow disease in the United States. It came here with an unfortunate little cow from Canada that found its way to Washington State.It ended, for a long time, U.S beef exports. The cost to the U...

Japan, U.S. hold 2-day technical meeting on U.S. beef imports

Posted on June 28, 2007
TOKYO (AP) - Japan and the U.S. today (Wednesday) began a 2-day meeting on U.S. beef imports as the U.S. calls for an easing of Japan's tough import restrictions. Japan only allows imports of U.S. beef from cattle 20 months old or younger, because mad cow disease has not been detected in meat from young cattle...

Japanese supermarket giant puts US beef back on shelves

Posted on June 28, 2007
One of Japan's top supermarket chains, Ito-Yokado Co., said Thursday it would resume sales of US beef at stores in Tokyo after taking it off the shelves due to a mad cow disease scare. Ito-Yokado will start selling US beef at its 20 outlets in and around the capital from Friday following its own investigation into the safety of US beef, it said in a statement...

Japan-U.S. Beef Talks Set

Posted on June 28, 2007
Japan and the United States will begin talks this week on easing Tokyo's strict import restrictions on American beef. The Japanese government announced on Monday that experts from the two countries will meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Tokyo to discuss the safety of American beef...

U.S. Gets Favorable Rating On Mad-Cow Risk Level

Posted on May 29, 2007
Washington - The World Organization for Animal Health voted Tuesday to grant the U.S. and Canada a favorable "controlled" risk status for mad-cow disease, something the countries hope to use as a new negotiating tool to open up beef markets still closed or partially closed to beef exports...

Global animal health agency says Canada's mad cow risk is controlled

Posted on May 29, 2007
CALGARY (CP) - Canada's mad cow protection measures have earned the second-highest safety designation from the world's leading animal health organization, a stamp which the cattle industry hopes will translate into more exports. "It's a very significant step," Hugh Lynch-Staunton, president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association, said Tuesday after the Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health officially categorized Canada as a controlled-risk country for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)...

S. Korea, U.S. Agree to Discuss Bone-in Beef Issue

Posted on May 18, 2007
South Korea and the United States agreed Friday to discuss bone-in beef and other import quarantine issues after a world animal health organization's general assembly slated for late May. The decision was reached in a two-day-long beef technical consultation meeting in Seoul...

Scientists Closer to Unfolding Mysteries of Prion Formation in Mad Cow Disease

Posted on May 18, 2007
Short elements within a prion protein's sequence can cause it to activate and even cross the species barrier to spread neurodegenerative disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to humans Prions, the maddening, infectious proteins, and the diseases they trigger, such as the fatal neurodegenerative disorder in humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease—as well as its bovine counterpart, mad cow disease—have baffled scientists for decades...

BSE discovered in cow

Posted on May 03, 2007
VICTORIA – The discovery of a dairy cow infected with mad cow disease has prompted the quarantine of a Surrey-area farm. Agriculture Minister Pat Bell said the case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered last week, and confirmed with additional test results revealed Wednesday...

S. Korean import of U.S. beef likely to resume next week

Posted on April 26, 2007
SEOUL, April 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's import of beef from the United States is highly likely to resume next week, three years and five months after imports were originally banned over a mad cow disease scare, agricultural officials said Thursday. "It was confirmed that the U...

US urges Japan to ease cattle ages restrictions

Posted on April 19, 2007
The United States Administration is stepping up pressure on Japan to ease age restrictions on its beef. The move comes ahead of an international panel's findings, that the US is largely free of mad cow disease. US Trade representative's office spokeswoman Gretchen Hamel denies a Japan Times story that the US has asked Tokyo to set a concrete deadline to fully reopen its market - now largely controlled by Australia...

GeneThera in Preliminary Talks for Mad Cow Testing

Posted on April 19, 2007
WHEAT RIDGE, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 16, 2007 -- GeneThera, Inc. (OTCBB: GTHA) announced today it has begun preliminary talks with ranchers to test their cattle for the Mad Cow disease. Commenting on the talks Dr. Tony Milici stated, "These preliminary talks are an important first step to establish our commercial platform once private companies will be allowed to test for Mad Cow disease in the US...

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