BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy)

Inportant North Dakota, U.S. and world sites

• BSE test results in confirmed positive (from Drovers News Source, June 24, 2005)
• NDSU Extension's Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy factsheet (rev. Jan 2004)
• Economic Chronology of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in North America (June 2006). Produced by USDA's Economic Research Service.
• Mad Cow Facts page. Produced by Center for Global Food Issues, this site provides balanced information from credible sources. Includes facts, news articles, commentary, analysis, and selected links.
• FoodSafety.gov BSE page. Compiles links to government food safety information.
• APHIS BSE site (USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) Includes very up-to-date information, press releases and chronology of BSE in the United States.
• FSIS BSE site (USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service)
• FAS BSE page (USDA Foreign Agricultural Service). Provides sources of information on the effects of BSE on trade.
• BSEInfo.org Informative site funded by America's Beef Producers through the Beef Checkoff Program and managed by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

• Canadian Food Inspection Agency BSE page.
• World Health Organization (WHO) BSE page. overview, factsheets,
  comprehensive resources section with links to publications, articles,
  and websites devoted to related topics and information.

Books, Articles and Research

• Research articles: Agricola Search the National Agricultural Library's Agricola database. Enter bovine spongiform encephalopathy as a keyword search. You might also search prion diseases as a keyword search.
• Research reports: AgEcon Search. Searchable file of reports from U.S. university departments of agricultural economics. Recent NDSU report: THE EFFECTS OF THE BSE OUTBREAK IN THE UNITED STATES ON THE BEEF AND CATTLE INDUSTRY (Jan, 2004)
• Magazine and news articles.
  • Search issues of Drovers Magazine.
  • Dakota Farmer has a BSE update page.
  • For a more broadly based search of newsmagazines and newspapers, select a database from our General Magazines and Newspapers listings (NDSU staff and students only).
• National Public Radio coverage of BSE including transcripts, audio, and additional web links; audio link to NPR Talk of the Nation radio interview about BSE (Neal Conan as host; aired 12-30-03.)
• Advancing Prion Science: Guidance for the National Prion Research Program National Academy Press title in press. Available for online pre-publication viewing.