Mad cow in Japan

[arcticpenguin]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7497796%5E1702,00.html

The male Holstein - confirmed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday to have had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - had been born in October 2001, the same month Japan banned meat-and-bone meal, which is generally regarded as the main route of infection.
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It represented a new, unusual strain of BSE, the health ministry said in a statement yesterday.

"We barely caught it," Health Minister Chikara Sakaguchi told a news conference today. "I want the ministry to study whether this new type of BSE will be completely picked up by our current testing system."

Could be big repercussions for the Japanese and international beef markets.

 

[Jon_in_london]

Could be big repercussions for the Japanese and international beef markets.

I want the French to get BSE.

 

[Segnosaur]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7497796%5E1702,00.html


Could be big repercussions for the Japanese and international beef markets.

Ironic.

Canada had a case of mad cow a few months ago, which caused a lot of problems for our beef industry. (Most countries stopped the importation of Canadian beef after that.)

The U.S. was going to resume the importation, but they delayed, partly because it may force Japan to stop importing U.S. beef because they didn't want any threat of 'contamination' by Canadian mad-cow.

 

[arcticpenguin]

The preliminary info seems to indicate that the japanese strain is a new one.

Why is BSE emerging at this time?Is it related to current feedlot methods, or what?