BSE hits Sweden
Sweden has lost its status as Europe’s only BSE-free country. Officials are still trying to trace the cause of the country’s first case of the cattle disease, confirmed on 3 March. Sweden will now have to begin testing all slaughtered cows destined for the food chain.
A beeline northwards
Swarms of Africanised honeybees, which on rare occasions can sting people to death, are continuing their northward spread into the US, the Agricultural Research Service confirmed on Monday. The bees, hybrids of African and commercial European honeybees, appeared in Louisiana and Arkansas for the first time last year…
