South Korea's suspension of Japanese beef imports

Lead: South Korea has temporarily banned beef imports from Japan after a suspected case of mad cow disease was found in Chiba County near Tokyo, the Ministry of Agriculture said Tuesday An official from the South Korean Ministry of agriculture told Reuters, "South Korea has temporarily stopped quarantine of Japanese livestock products to prevent BSE from entering the country Because a suspected case of BSE has been found in Japan "In Japan, mad cow disease was found in a cow It will be the first case of mad cow disease found in Asia, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy It is reported that it is transmitted through the use of infected meat and bone meal to feed cattle The disease could lead to a new form of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD), which causes hundreds of deaths in the UK Since April, South Korea has imported only two tons of beef and about 260 tons of hoof bones from Japan, according to Ministry of agriculture officials After the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Japan at the beginning of last year, South Korea banned the import of livestock products from Japan until April Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is another fatal and highly infectious livestock disease But FMD does not infect humans Japan said on Monday that the risk of a massive outbreak of BSE in Japan is believed to remain low, and there will be no problem with Japanese milk and beef Japan's Ministry of Agriculture said the problem cattle had been slaughtered, and the meat of the cattle did not reach consumers at all The cow, which had difficulty standing in August, was slaughtered on August 6 and sent to a Japanese Research Center for testing The first test was negative, but a hole was found in the cow's brain Further tests were carried out on September 6, and results released on Monday showed positive for BSE South Korean cattle have been tested negative for BSE since 1996, and imports of cattle products and other ruminants from countries where BSE outbreaks have occurred are banned, including the UK (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: