This fund is intended to assist our employees and communities as they will surely face many unforseen and uncovered expenses in the coming months. The fire is now about 30 percent contained, but firefighters fear high winds today could spread the blaze beyond fire lines. The fire damaged some buildings at the National Lab. While the Los Alamos National Laboratory is a DOE operation, its 8,000 employees are contract workers and are not U.S. government employees. The community has my assurances that the Department of Energy will do everything within its powers to help our employees, our contractors and the impacted communities.
Laboratory tests show that mad deer disease can infect human brain tissue.
The groups are demanding that the FDA close loopholes in animal feed regulations to prevent the spread of mad cow type diseases. Under current FDA regulations, animals known to be infected with mad cow type disease can be legally fed to pigs, chickens and pets, which in turn can be rendered and fed to cows. Billions of pounds of slaughterhouse waste in the form of rendered animal byproducts are fed to U.S. livestock every year as fat and protein supplements. An analysis by the Johns Hopkins researchers concludes that new cases of asthma among Americans are increasing so fast that by the time another generation of children is born, asthma will strike 29 million Americans - more people than the projected 2020 population of New York and New Jersey combined. Asthma is a chronic disease whose causes are unclear, but genetic predisposition and environmental triggers in both indoor and outdoor air are known contributors to asthma's development and severity.