Responding to consumer group requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, the USDA has released documents revealing that, in the last year, U.S. meat plants have made over a thousand violations of safety regulations designed to prevent the spread of mad cow disease. The Bush Administration is not responding to these violations or to the new confirmed cases of mad cow disease in the U.S. http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/violations081605.cfm