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>From Int'l Herald Tribune
> Paris, Friday, June 4, 1999
>
>
> U.S. Banning EU Chicken and Pork
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- AFP
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -- WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities Thursday were in the process of
> instructing customs inspectors to block all imports of chicken and
> pork originating from European Union countries, a spokesman for the
> Department of Agriculture said, adding that the ban was to be
> temporary.
>
> The measure stemmed from fears that the meats could contain high
> levels of a cancer-causing chemical, dioxin, following the ban by
> Belgium of chicken- and egg-based foods from more than 400 farms due
> to excessively high levels of the toxic pollutant. Thursday, the
> food-poisoning scandal spread to Belgian pigs.
>
> Related article, Page 7.
>From ChicagoTribune
> REJECTION OF SOME BLOOD DONORS URGED AS MAD-COW SHIELD
>
> From Tribune News Services
> June 3, 1999
>
> GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND -- At least some Americans who visited Britain
> frequently at the height of the mad-cow disease scare should be
> forbidden to donate blood back home, a federal panel recommended
> Wednesday.
>
> The advisers to the Food and Drug Administration expressed concern
> about a theoretical risk that a similar human brain disease might be
> spread via blood.
>
> Panel members stressed that their vote did not mean that frequent
> travelers to Britain are at risk of getting a fatal illness linked to
> mad-cow disease or of spreading it through their blood.
>
> The problem is that scientists just don't know if the illness can be
> spread that way. There never has been a human case where that
> happened. But at issue is a new fatal disease that doctors don't yet
> understand -- and some scientists have successfully transmitted
> similar illnesses to animals through blood.
>
> "The day you find out there is (human) transmission, you're years too
> late" to protect the blood supply, said Dr. Linda Detwiler as the
> panel voted 12-9 that FDA should reject some donors.
>
> If it endorses the recommendation, the FDA must decide how long
> someone had to stay in Britain to be deemed enough of a risk to refuse
> their blood.
> $500 MILLION RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL EFFORT DEEMED A FAILURE
>
> From Tribune News Services
> June 3, 1999
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After spending nearly $500 million, the Energy
> Department acknowledged Wednesday that a crucial stage in the disposal
> of 35 million gallons of highly radioactive waste is a failure and
> should have been abandoned years ago.
>
> The failed process involves attempts by scientist to find a way to
> separate the most highly radioactive material from less radioactive
> liquids in 35 million gallons of waste stored in drums at the
> Savannah, S.C., nuclear weapons facility.
>
> Scientists found that the separation process, when handling such huge
> amounts of waste, produces large amounts of explosive benzene gas,
> making it too dangerous.
>
> Last week, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson directed that the
> contractor for the project, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Corp., be
> replaced and that outside scientists be enlisted to help select an
> alternative separation technology.
>
> Over the objections of the contractor, the department quietly pulled
> the plug on the project more than a year ago. Since then, a number of
> alternative technologies have been proposed and will be pursued under
> a new contractor, officials said.
>
> The problems could add years to the $20 billion, 30-year program.
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