Japan panel recommends dropping cow tests
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Japan could stop testing newborn and younger cows for mad cow disease without posing a risk to public health, a special panel decided Monday, in a ruling that could influence talks to lift Tokyo&#39;s ban on American beef imports.
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Japan is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday.
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Japan's lucrative market for U.S.  beef, ruptured by mad cow disease worries, is likely to remain  closed for the rest of this year, U.S. meat industry officials  said on Thursday.
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Japan on Thursday announced the resumption of U.S. beef imports, ending a ban imposed over concerns about mad cow disease and removing a strain in relations with Washington.
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The USDA did not disclose details regarding the animal, but said it did not enter the food chain. The agency does not expect the finding to affect negotiations with Japan, which recently indicated it might soon open its borders to US beef.
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Japan may say it found its 15th case of mad cow disease in an animal found in Mie prefecture, Kyodo News said, citing the local government.
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But it could take five months before any decision is made on dropping a ban on Canadian cattle. WASHINGTON -- American officials started the final review yesterday of draft rules that would end the US cattle
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TOKYO (DTN) -- Here&#39;s the good news on the high-level US-Japan mad cow talks last week in Tokyo: Japan (in principle) will lift a ban on US beef that was put in place last December after the first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
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Canada&#39;s Food Inspection Agency said multiple screening tests indicate a 10-year-old dairy cow may have mad cow disease. Today&#39;s announcement comes a day after the US said it would lift a ban on cattle imports from Canada in March.
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US Department of Agriculture officials yesterday said an initial test for mad cow disease has yielded an &quot;inconclusive&quot; result in a cow targeted under the department&#39;s high-risk category, prompting
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Canada&#39;s Food Inspection Agency said today that multiple screening tests indicate a 10-year-old dairy cow may have mad cow disease.
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A final test is likely to confirm a  second U.S. case of mad cow disease, experts said on Thursday,  though they see a small possibility the animal, which tested  "inconclusive" in two preliminary tests, could be given a clean  bill of health.
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OTTAWA (CP) - No feed bag - or cat dish - will be left unturned as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency probes what cattle on a central Alberta farm may have eaten to trigger a case of mad cow disease.
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It was almost over. After a year and eight months, the U.S. was finally ready to lift their ban on Canadian live cattle and beef imports -- a ban they put in place in May 2003 when the first case of BSE (aka mad cow disease) was discovered in Alberta. The ban devastated the Canadian beef industry. A cow that would have normally sold for $1,300 was selling for $15 instead. In total, the ban has cost the industry an estimated $5 billion.    But on Dec. 29, 2004, the USDA announced that it recognized Canada as a "minimal-risk region" for BSE and imports of young Canadian cattle would resume March 7, 2005. The new classification meant that Canada could have up to 11 cases of BSE and still be considered a safe country for cattle exports. Canadian cattle farmers rejoiced.    The next day, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported that preliminary tests had turned up another suspected case of mad cow disease in a 10-year-old dairy cow. They confirmed it three days later, but American officials said the announcement would likely not affect their decision to reopen the border.    Then the other shoe dropped.
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Japan and the United States agreed yesterday to resume imports of some American beef, halted since December after a case of mad cow disease
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No end is in sight to Japan's ban on  imports of a U.S. beef, the head of a U.S. beef industry  delegation said on Tuesday after a two-day visit to Japan aimed  at speeding efforts to ease the ban.
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American and Japanese negotiators have agreed to ease Japan&#39;s ban on American beef exports, brought in after a single case of mad cow disease in the US last year.