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New week, new Monday links

Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered.

Food safety

House advances funding bill that bans horse slaughter, gives FDA a small boost – Food Safety News

The bill bumped up the budget for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]

Neogen on the small screen

TV shows, webcasts – Neogen representatives have been busy!

Check out some of their latest appearances.

Igenity on The American Rancher (RFD-TV)

Neogen’s Igenity beef genomics subsidiary was featured on a recent episode of The American Rancher, which is set to re-air at noon on Sunday. (Check out some info on Igenity and an interview [...]

A very dairy Monday links

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National Dairy Month

Moo-ve along May – June is National Dairy Month – Neogen Blog

Check out some cool dairy facts and our infographic.

Cheese may prevent cavities – Science Daily

Another [...]

Trash My Puller winners announced

Sheldon Tindall’s winning Trash My Puller photo

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our winners.

Congratulations to Sheldon Tindall of Alberta, Canada, who sent his old calf puller off into the wild blue yonder to win the Trash My Puller photo contest. Evan Okraincee, of Saskatchewan, Canada, came in second with his puller taking a [...]

Moo-ve along May – June is National Dairy Month!

Time to break out those milk mustaches!

June is National Dairy Month, which promotes milk and recognizes the contributions of the dairy industry.

National Dairy Month has been around for a while – it started off as National Milk Month in 1937 as a mechanism to stabilize dairy demand during a surplus, according to the International [...]

The first Monday links of June

E. coli

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Food safety

Gut reaction: Human colon replica demonstrates how E. coli contaminates groundwater – Scientific American

Researchers found when E. coli O157:H7 (the most virulent strain of E. coli) [...]

U.S. BSE status changed to “negligible”

The U.S. recently achieved an important distinction in regard to its mad cow disease status.

At its annual meeting, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) voted to recognize the U.S. as having “negligible risk” for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow). Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Slovenia also received the same distinction.

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The belated links: Your midweek news fix

Editor’s note: Happy Wednesday, all! The links will be back to their normal home on Monday next week.

Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. 

Food safety

Court extends deadline for FSMA rules – Food Safety News

The U.S. Food [...]

Practicing pet safety in the summer

Warm days are upon us!

We aren’t the only ones who enjoy summertime – pets also seem to relish the sun and warmth. However, it’s important certain precautions are taken to ensure pets are kept healthy and happy, especially given how toasty it can get.

Check out these tips from the American Kennel Club (AKC) [...]

A permanent place: MSU alum newest vet at Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park

Erica and Mae Tee (Photo courtesy of Erica Ward).

Big changes are coming for Erica Ward.

The Fowlerville, Mich. native, who recently graduated from Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is the newest staff veterinarian at Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park (ENP), where she’s volunteered for several years.

She first traveled to the park, [...]