Not all critics want to stop biotechnology; some just want to increase testing and regulation.
Ms. Veneman said that she would increase testing American herds and that next year 12,500 head would be tested.
Deborah Jack, chief executive of the National Aids Trust, said the figures showed the need to increase testing.
He says the United States should set up a system to track bovine material coming into this country and increase testing.
"I believe that the Department of Defense should strive to increase testing, including realistic challenges of the system's ability to work under real world conditions and ensure that the current system failures are corrected before deployment".
Congress will vote soon on President Bush's education plan, including a proposal that would again greatly increase testing by requiring every student in grades 3 to 8 to be tested annually.
Administration officials, however, credited the law for the positive results, even though a proliferation of early childhood and kindergarten programs and efforts by states to impose curriculum standards, increase testing and reduce class sizes, begun during the Clinton administration, may have contributed.
The Tour of California, a 650-mile, eight-day race that is expected to attract some of cycling's top international teams next month, announced Tuesday that it would increase testing of riders before and after each day's event, and contribute its results to an antidoping database sponsored by the sport's governing body.
These pretreatment regimes reduce assay throughput and increase testing costs.
At a teleconference for the media, CDC said it's expanding efforts to increase testing in youth.
Harrow Estates said it would increase testing if more than 6mm of rain fell within 24 hours.
