Japan may completely stop using meat and bone meal
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Last Update: 2001-10-09
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Lead: Nikkei news, September 29: Japan's Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries is considering temporarily banning the sale and use of meat and bone meal feed, which is suspected to be the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease, according to the Sunday edition of Japan economic news agency The aim of the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries is to completely burn the stock of meat and bone meal feed in order to prevent the spread of BSE Meat and bone meal feed, whether purchased from home or abroad, will be burned The Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries will also announce plans on Monday to stop imports The plan aims to restore consumer confidence in domestic beef The first case of BSE was found in Japan on September 22 The ban will give two to three days' notice to Japanese meat and bone meal distributors abroad and at home Imports from Europe were banned in January, but there are still meat and bone meal imports from Australia and other countries Australia exported the largest amount of meat and bone meal to Japan last year, reaching 35000 tons, followed by New Zealand, with 34000 tons Imports from Argentina, Uruguay and China will also stop (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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