Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya urged his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday to ease Beijing's export ...

The U.S. government is combating a potential invasion of flesh-eating New World screwworm maggots, which threaten livestock, ...

The foreign ministers of Japan and China affirmed the need to promote stable ties during their talks Thursday on the fringes o ...

Mad cow disease, also known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a non-contagious disease in cows which is different from ‘classical’ BSE, which is linked to contaminated feed.

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The formal name for mad cow disease is “bovine spongiform encephalopathy.” People who eat beef having the disease may get the human form of the disease, or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

South Korea was one of the first countries to start U.S. trade talks when both sides agreed in April to craft a package aimed ...

Commonly called mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, is a brain-wasting ailment. In humans, it can cause a variant of the degenerative, fatal brain disorder known as ...

Since the discovery of the first case of mad cow disease in the United States on Dec. 23, Veneman said, the USDA has enhanced safeguards already in place to prevent BSE from entering the food supply.

Non-tariff barriers and emerging regulatory clashes remain the main areas of contention in South Korean negotiations even as ...