Five years after Parliament agreed suspect cattle parts (brains, spinal cords and other offal) should be kept out of the human food chain, beef carcasses ready for the butchers' shops were found with the offal still in place.

BBC: BSE: lessons for science?

We are not convinced that all areas of the transportation chain in the world are ready.

BBC: Airline to give Y2K update

The French anti-fraud office has begun investigating the complex Europe-wide chain of instructions for ordering ready-meals from Comigel, which links France, Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Netherlands and Romania.

BBC: UK

It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable, with the flexibility to daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt-ready devices with a single connection as well as offering full display port support for a 7th Thunderbolt or display port equipped monitor.

ENGADGET: ASUS and MSI launch Thunderbolt motherboards, tie for first place

Checks with value chain suppliers indicate China Telecom should be ready to debut a CDMA iPhone 4S as soon as February 2012, even though the launch could be delayed to mid-2012, read the note released Monday, dispelling rumors that a CDMA iPhone could rock the Chinese market in the fourth quarter.

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