These articles (one from 1/30 and one from 1/31 N.Y. Times should help ease some of the confusion that seems to exist about conditions in the U.S. involving some pet and human food supplies as well as giving some data from Europe): http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/health/30MAD.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/31/health/31MADC.html They are also simply interesting reading. [Posted in FML issue 3314]