Japan Suspends Beef Imports From Brazil on Mad-Cow Disease
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Japan, Asia’s largest beef buyer, suspended imports from Brazil after a cow in Parana state tested positive for mad-cow disease.
“We suspended imports from Brazil as soon as an outbreak of BSE was confirmed,” the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday, referring to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or the brain-wasting disease known as mad cow.