Vets Seeing More Horses With Nutritional Issues This Year
Vets Seeing More Horses With Nutritional Issues This Year
While much of the Midwest has recovered from the drought that parched the area last year, horses are continuing to experience effects from the hot dry summer of 2006. Due to a bad hay crop, University of Missouri-Columbia veterinarians are reporting an increased number of horses with chronic selenosis and vitamin E deficiency, problems that can be fatal. [click link for full article]
Judge taken to the cleaners (Bangkok Post)
A judge in Washington ruled on Monday that no pair of trousers is worth $54 million (1.7 billion baht), rejecting a lawsuit by another judge that took a dry cleaner’s sign of “satisfaction guaranteed” to its most litigious extreme.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Encourages Early Preparedness For Enhanced Feed Ban
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is reminding cattle producers, abattoirs and other regulated parties to begin preparing for new requirements under the enhanced feed ban, which come into force July 12, 2007. The enhanced feed ban will accelerate Canada’s progress toward the eradication of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from the national herd, and serves to protect producers by reducing opportunities for cross contamination in the feed supply. [click link for full article]