Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or "Mad Cow Disease," continues to be in the news worldwide. Surveillance programs are in place to assure consumers that American beef and other food products derived from cattle are safe.

The Internet's largest and most authoritative site for prions, mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE), scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD and nvCJD), kuru,and chronic wasting disease (CWD). Over 6966 articles, updated twice weekly. General news, government cover-ups, prion molecular biology research developments. Color slides of spongiform brains; working links to online research journals and other mad cow sites worldwide.

Online resource of factual information about recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST). rbSTFacts.org provides access to hundreds of documents focusing on the manufacture, use and impact of this dairy-production technology. These documents include reports, studies and findings from scientific and academic institutions and government and regulatory agencies, as well as news media reports and commentary from qualified scientific and professional authorities.

Based in Washington, D.C., the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy fosters and conducts objective, non-advocacy research, analysis, and education to inform public policy on food, agriculture, natural resources, environmental quality, and rural economics.

Sweetpoison, written by author Dr. Janet Starr Hull, is a book exposing aspartame dangers. SweetPoison.com provides a variety of aspartame information including nutritional advice on aspartame detoxification, aspartame side effects and up-to-date information on aspartame dangers.

An information resource produced by National Cattlemens Beef Association, on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) reviewed by a scientific panel of experts in the fields of veterinary medicine, prion/protein studies, neuropathology, and disease surveillance.

Knowing what to feed your kids has always been a struggle for parents, but the many reports of food related illnesses this year has left even more parents wondering what's left that is safe to feed their children.

The incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is monitored in the UK by the National CJD surveillance unit based at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The unit brings together a team of clinical neurologists, neuropathologists and scientists specialising in the investigation of this disease. This document is intended to summarise the research in progress at the CJD unit and also provide some background information about CJD and other human spongiform encephalopathies.

The effects of bST treatment of cows in relation to human health and animal health have been re-evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in USA, and have been evaluated by independent assessments for the Canadian authorities, by Codex Alimentarius and by scientific committees of the European Union. The US and Canadian assessments both concluded that products from bST-treated cows present no hazard to human health, and this is supported by the Codex assessment. However, the EU assessment is inconclusive, while drawing attention to potential hazards requiring more research. The US reassessment reaffirmed that bST treatment is not harmful to animal health, but both the Canadian and EU assessments concluded that it is harmful to animal health.

News and Blog on Genetically Modified Food and Biotechnology in Africa. Do genetically modified (GM) crops pollinate wild relatives? This question continues to dominate the debate about GM crops.