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"U.S. and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow limited imports of U.S. beef into Japan," reports Canadian Press. Japan imported $1.7 billion of U.S. beef in 2003, but closed its markets last December, after a Washington state cow was found to have mad cow disease [4]. The chair of the Canada Beef Export Federation called the announcement was "old news," saying, "The Americans are trying to put a new spin on it for their election." The head of U.S. beef producer Creekstone Farms, which unsuccessfully petitioned the USDA [5] to do its own mad cow disease testing, said [6], "We would still like to test."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/environment/agriculture/mad-cow-disease
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[4] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Mad_cow_disease
[5] http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2004Q1/beef.html
[6] http://www.meatnews.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Article&artNum=8424
[7] http://www.canada.com/national/story.html?id=0d055714-3b88-4293-8ad4-618c868aafff