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6 hrs ago | Food Industry

Fish gelatine gaining in importance - but remains niche

Fish gelatine is rising in importance as an alternative to bovine and porcine gelatine - but there are still challenges in terms of supply, extraction and functionality.

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Related Topix: Health, Science / Technology, CPU

Mon May 20, 2013

Mirror.co.uk

'Mad cow disease' alert: Patient being treated in hospital for suspected CJD

Health chiefs last night confirmed a man suspected of suffering from the human form of mad cow disease is being treated in hospital.

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Related Topix: Health, Meat, Life, Beef, Food

Canada.com

Authorities face questions over handling of BSE threat

Veterinarian Stephanie Czub, seen with cattle at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory near Lethbridge, discovered a case of BSE from her Winnipeg lab in 2003.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Life, Beef, Food, Meat, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters,

CBC News

10 years since mad cow linked to Saskatchewan farm

Cows are shown on a farmer's field in High River, Alta., on May 22, 2003, two days after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Alberta government announced a cow from a herd in northwestern Alberta was infected with BSE, the first case of mad cow disease reported in Canada in a decade.

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Related Topix: Canada, Health, Agriculture, Science

The Argus

Chichester patient could have mad cow disease

Health bosses have confirmed a patient is believed to have contracted the human form of mad cow disease in Sussex.

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Related Topix: Health

Sat May 18, 2013

Canada.com

Mad cow crisis put brakes on trucking

Trucker Mark Wendorff says his livestock trucking business has never fully recovered from the BSE crisis 10 years ago.

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Related Topix: Truckers, Canada, Life, Beef, Food, Meat, Health

Wed May 08, 2013

Reuters

RLPC-Allflex buyout backed with $810 mln of covenant-lite debt

BC Partners' $1.3 billion acquisition of animal identification company Allflex will be backed with an$810 million debt financing, banking sources said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Health

Tue May 07, 2013

The Japan Times

U.S. producers eye big increase in beef exports

Target market: A young customer checks out U.S. beef products at a supermarket in Kita Ward, Tokyo, after they went on sale in February because import restrictions were eased.

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Related Topix: Meat, Life, Beef, Food, Health

Thu May 02, 2013

Indy Media

Howard Lyman Continues To Expose Mad Cow Incidence In US And Elsewhere

The Canadian Parliament has been investigating the fraud regarding US testing for Mad Cow.

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Related Topix: US News, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Food and Drug Administration, Health, United States Department of Agriculture, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Mon Apr 29, 2013

LiveScience

Brain-Wasting Disease Lurks in UK Blood Supply

The outbreak of the illness, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy , resulted in nearly 200 human deaths worldwide and the slaughter of millions of cattle, the Guardian reports.

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Related Topix: Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Life, Beef, Food, Meat

Medical Daily

Nearly 1,000 People Could Die From Contracting 'Silent' Mad Cow From Blood Transfusions

British officials warn hospitals that nearly 1,000 people with the human variant of mad cow disease could die because of mad cow infected blood transfusions.

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Related Topix: Health, Life, Beef, Food, Meat

Daily Mail

Up to 1,000 people could die from mad cow disease due to being given infected blood in hospitals

Up to 1,000 British people could die of the human form of mad cow disease because of infected blood given to them in British hospitals, ministers have been warned.

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Related Topix: Health, Life, Beef, Food, Meat

Thu Apr 25, 2013

Great Bend Tribune

Congressman Huelskamp discusses Kansas beef with Jap...

Wednesday night, Congressman Tim Huelskamp was Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae's guest at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan.

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Related Topix: US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Representative Tim Huelskamp, Life, Food, Beef, Meat, Kansas, Health, Agra, KS

Wed Apr 24, 2013

Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Foodborne Transmission of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy to Nonhuman Primates

To determine attack rates, incubation times, and molecular signatures, we orally exposed 18 macaques to 1 high dose of brain material from cattle with BSE.

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