Mad Cow Disease
Mad cow disease, a relatively newly discovered malady, was first identified in Britain in 1986, when farmers noticed that their cows' behavior had changed. The cows began to s...
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China has asked Japan to implement appropriate measures to
prevent travelers from smuggling Japanese beef into China, sources
familiar with the matter said Thursday.
In an extremely rare m...
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Japan and the United States remained at loggerheads over Japan's
imports of American beef following a telephone conversation Tuesday
night between top government officials of the two countrie...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture must allow meatpackers to
test all their cattle for mad cow disease in line with safety
assurances sought by Japanese and other customers, according to a
r...
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The United States has requested that Japan consider softening a
condition it has attached to importing beef from the United States by
setting a concrete deadline by which Tokyo should abide b...
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The agricultural ministry said Friday it has asked the U.S.
government to undertake an investigation as American beef, without a
sanitary certificate attached, was found in pork imports from ...
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Japan will seek to settle a row over U.S.-grown beef imports in
talks with the United States amid the mad cow disease scare before
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flies to the United States in late...
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Japan and the United States remained at odds at their high-level
gathering on Friday over Washington's call on Tokyo to relax its
criteria for American beef imports soon, a Japanese official ...
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Thursday he expects no
breakthrough in a U.S.-Japan spat over beef trade in a summit between
President George W. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Shinz...
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Hong Kong agreed in principle to allow Japan to restart exports
of beef from Japanese-grown cattle by removing a five-and-a-half-year
ban on Japanese beef imports imposed amid the mad cow dis...
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Mad Cow Disease
China asks Japan to help block smuggling of Japanese beef
