USA Mad cow: Small intestine in cosmetics OK again

Pundits exclaim "how does he do it?" as Bush relaunches and rejuvinates with solid new policy on animal parts

Good to eat too!

yahoo/reuters: The Bush administration on Tuesday eased regulations restricting the use of cattle parts in human food, a safeguard considered the main defense against mad cow disease.

The Food and Drug Administration said it would no longer designate a cattle's entire small intestine as prohibited material in food and cosmetics.

"FDA is amending the rule to allow use of the small intestine in human food and cosmetics, provided that the distal ileum has been removed," the agency said.

The Agriculture Department was expected to make similar changes to its rules.

After the discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in December 2003, the federal government implemented a series of strict regulations preventing the spread of the brain-wasting disease. Read more

db: Small intestine farmers across America will be saved from starvation,their children once more able to wear shoes. The planned million-man march in aid of small intestine producers will go on the back boiler, gourmet restaurants nationwide can once more sail the heights of peerless gastronomic brilliance.... [ed:..enough benefits of evidently vote-winning Bush policy]