A federal appeals court judge is pondering whether the Bush administration has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.

The Bush administration made its request on Friday to the court that is considering overturning a ruling that allowed Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City, Kan., to test all its beef for mad cow disease

After 19 years, the Scottish government is bent on asking the United States to overturn its ban on Scotland's traditional and national dish called 'haggis' as it cited a lucrative market for the product out there.

"The market is massive because there are so many expat Scots there and once Americans try a good quality haggis, they can't get enough of it," a Scottish government spokesperson said in a report of BBC News

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has reportedly confirmed the country's 10th case of mad cow disease since 2003. The diseased dairy cow was found in the western province of British Columbia.

Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that no part of the animal entered the human food or animal feed systems and its carcass is under CFIA control. According to preliminary information, the agency is speculating that the 5 1/2-year-old cow was infected during its first year of life

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has detected a new case of mad cow disease in a bull at Alberta, Canada under the national Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) surveillance program. Though this is the ninth case of mad cow in the country since May 2003, the authorities have confirmed that none of the animal has entered the food chain yet. All the animals are believed to have contracted the disease from contaminated feed.

BSE - commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal disease that causes progressive neurological degeneration in cattle. Similar to BSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare disease that occurs in humans. In 1996, following outbreaks of BSE among British cattle, scientists found a possible link between BSE and a new variant of CJD (vCJD). While it is not certain how BSE may be spread to humans, evidence indicates that humans may acquire vCJD after consuming BSE-contaminated cattle products

Researchers across the United States have reportedly found a way to tackle the Mad Cow disease by genetically engineered cattle. These cattle have immunity against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease, thus helping eliminate the disease if consumers are ready to accept genetically engineered cattle.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) commonly known as mad cow disease, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle. It also adversely affected the country's agriculture industry as many countries banned the imports of cattle from U.S. due to this disease