Canadian Beef Entered U.S. Due to Lax Oversight -USDA
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Lax oversight by the U.S.  Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were  to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products  in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban, federal  investigators said on Wednesday.
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Canada would be allowed to resume exports of live cattle and additional types of beef to the United States under a regulation approved by the US Department of Agriculture, the agency said on Monday.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba  - The Canadian government has  quarantined a farm in Alberta in its search for cattle  connected to the country's second case of mad cow disease, the  Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday.
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Canada on Thursday said it had found a suspected new case of mad cow disease, although the United States said it would not change plans to resume limited Canadian cattle imports after a devastating 20-month ban.
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TOKYO (CP) - U.S. and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow  limited imports of U.S. beef into Japan but a Canadian beef industry spokesman called it a rehash of previous agreements and "election hype."
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse
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Canada's cattle and beef industries,  battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win  new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a  plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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Cattle exports from Canada to the US -- banned in May 2003 because of mad cow disease -- will resume as early as March under a rule unveiled today by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Expressing confidence in the safety of Canadian beef, the Bush administration said Thursday it would stand by its decision to renew Canadian beef imports beginning in March despite a possible new case of mad cow disease.
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The Department of Agriculture said it will begin testing more domestic and imported meat used to make ground beef for E. coli contamination, following an increase in recalls for the potentially deadly bacteria.
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Canada, whose exports of beef products are effected by a single case of mad cow disease since may 2003, has exceeded its mad cow testing target for 2004, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Canada may have found a new  case of mad cow disease, officials said on Thursday,   rekindling tensions in its hard-hit beef industry just one day  after the United States announced plans to reopen the border to  live Canadian cattle.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal officials have confirmed Canada's second case of mad cow disease in 10 days - a development that could threaten U.S. plans to reopen the border to Canadian beef.
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US Department of Agriculture officials and Central Oregon ranchers said on Thursday that the nation&#39;s supply of beef is safe, despite news that a government screening process recently detected
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China has sharply increased inspections of imported U.S. food, escalating a dispute with Washington over product safety and leaving American beef piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and other goods.
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CALGARY -- Canadian cattle producers should be celebrating the scheduled reopening of the US border to live Canadian cattle today.
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Canada on Sunday confirmed its second case of mad cow disease, just days after the United States said it planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef.