The Food and Drug Administration "banned brains and other cattle parts that could carry mad cow disease [3] from use in cosmetics and dietary supplements, but delayed some similar safeguards in animal feed for up to two years." In January, Health and Human Services [4] Secretary Tommy Thompson [5] proposed an "interim final rule" (first discussed in 2002) to strengthen animal feed regulations. "We must never be satisfied with the status quo," he said [6]. But new feed regulations have now been downgraded to an "advance notice of proposed rulemaking," which delays possible implementation. Today, Thompson explained [7], "We cannot be content with the status quo."