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USDA funds security protections, laboratory network
More than $43 million in state grants and cooperative agreements has been made available by the Department of Agriculture
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Farm bill includes animal health, welfare provisions promoted by AVMA
The massive $111 billion farm bill, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in May, will subsidize U.S. farmers
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Review finds U.S. animal disease control system adequate, but needing improvement
A review of the nation's ability to protect livestock and poultry against foreign animal diseases describes the state of disease
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Terrorism law includes penalties for extremists targeting animal-related businesses
Legilation penalizes extremists who vandalize laboratories, furriers, farms, and other animal-related businesses
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Agriculture officials discuss efforts to protect food supply from disease, attack
Posted on May 1, 2002 During a recent meeting of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture in Chicago, the Department of Agriculture…
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Federal funding intensifies prion disease research
A team of researchers at Colorado State University has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health
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USDA continues testing Vermont sheep
Two of the 125 sheep from a Vermont farm tested positive for an atypical undifferentiated transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
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Food safety, homeland security spending increases proposed in FY 2003 agriculture budget
Details of the Bush administration's proposed fiscal year 2003 Department of Agriculture budget were released in February. The