NR ANKQ
AU Lamar,J.
TI Japan to test a million cattle after discovery of first case of BSE
QU British Medical Journal 2001 Sep 29; 323: 713
PT news
VT
The Japanese government has announced that it will test one million cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) after the discovery of Asia's first case of mad cow disease. The cows will be tested after they have been slaughtered for meat.
The mass testing, along with a ban on meat and bone feed and the start of new research into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is designed to allay consumers' concerns, which have been heightened by a blundered official response to the discovery.
Brain tissue from a 5 year old Holstein dairy cow from a farm in Chiba, just outside Tokyo, tested positive for the disease in late August. The government says it will not confirm that the cow was infected until a further examination is carried out in
Britain, but several nations, including the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan, have already banned Japanese beef.
Joe Lamar Tokyo
SP englisch
PO England