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To: RealMuLan who wrote (271818)12/23/2003 9:13:44 PM
From: BubbaFred  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Report: Japan Bans U.S. Beef Imports

TOKYO - Japan indefinitely banned imports of U.S. beef on Wednesday after a cow in Washington state tested positive for mad cow disease, the Agriculture Ministry said, depriving American beef exporters of their largest overseas market.

A ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the ban applied to beef and beef products and took effect immediately.

U.S. beef exports to Japan totaled US$842 million in 2002, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Japanese authorities have been especially leery about mad cow since the nation's herds suffered the first recorded outbreak of the disease in Asia in September 2001, causing meat consumption to plunge. Consumption, however, has since rebounded.

Tokyo moved ahead with the ban despite assurances from U.S. officials that the American beef supply was safe.

Mad cow disease, known also as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, eats holes in the brains of cattle. It sprang up in Britain in 1986 and spread through countries in Europe and Asia, prompting massive destruction of herds and decimating the European beef industry.

A form of mad cow disease can be contracted by humans if they eat infected beef or nerve tissue, and possibly through blood transfusions. The human form of mad cow disease so far has killed 143 people in Britain and 10 elsewhere, none in the United States. Blood donors possibly at risk for the disease are banned from giving.

story.news.yahoo.com
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