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Japan inspects U.S. beef facilities

flounder

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Friday, Dec. 1, 2006


Japan inspects U.S. beef facilities

Kyodo News

Japanese officials have conducted surprise inspections of U.S. meatpacking plants that were authorized to export beef to Japan after the ban on U.S. beef imports was lifted, farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka said Thursday, without specifying where and when they took place.

The the checks were conducted to determine if the plants were complying with conditions for beef exports to Japan. Matsuoka was speaking at the House of Councilors committee on agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

Japan prohibited imports of U.S. beef for two years after the first case of mad cow disease -- a cow born in Canada -- was discovered in the U.S. in December 2003.

Tokyo lifted the ban last December but reinstated it after a veal shipment arrived at Narita airport in January containing part of a backbone -- material prohibited by a bilateral agreement on the beef trade.

The ban was lifted again in late July after Japanese government inspectors checked that safeguard measures were being observed at U.S. meatpacking plants authorized to supply beef to Japan.



http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20061201a7.html


damn, too bad the U.S. consumer cant get USA beef, bound for Japan, here in the USA. ...TSS
 
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