USDA INCOMPETENCE AGAIN THREATENS AMERICANS' HEALTH

This will come as no surprise to anyone, except perhaps the fact that it wasn't announced on a Friday: "Lax oversight by the U.S. Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban, federal investigators said Wednesday." Eh, but don't worry, that's only 21 tons of beef - how many BSE prions could possibly be hiding in there?