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JACK KEMP
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2006
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"America's Global Leadership Imperative"
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BY LIBBY QUAID THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cleaning up after Mother Nature
WASHINGTON—A Kansas meatpacker has sparked an industry fight by proposing tests of all the company's cattle for mad cow disease.
Beef testing proposed
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When Japan reopened its market late last year, Creekstone resumed shipments. Japan has halted shipments again, after finding American veal cuts with backbone. These cuts are eaten in the U.S. but are banned in Japan.
nearly one-third of its sales and led the company to slash production and lay off about 150 people, Stewart said.
Frontier Mall maintenance worker Steven Ellston sweeps up debris after high winds blew over a light pole. The winds caused damage to two vehicles Sunday morning in Cheyenne, Wyo.
HEALTH
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to look for the disease in every animal it processes. The Agriculture Department has said no. Creekstone said it intended to sue the department.
Japan has had two dozen cases of BSE.
"Our customers, particularly our Asian customers, have requested it over and over again," chief executive John Stewart said in an interview Wednesday. "We feel strongly that if customers are asking for tested beef, we should be allowed to provide
Larger companies worry that Japanese buyers would insist on costly testing and that a suspect result might scare consumers away from eating beef.
The department and larger meat companies oppose comprehensive testing, saying it cannot assure food safety. Testing rarely detects the disease in younger animals, the source of most meat.
that."
"There isn't any nation in the world that requires 100 percent testing," department spokesman Ed Loyd said Wednesday.
Japan was the most lucrative foreign market for American beef until the first U.S. case of mad cow disease prompted a ban in 2003. The ban cost Creekstone
The U.S. has had three cases of mad cow disease. The first appeared in December 2003 in a Washington state cow that had been imported from Canada. The second was confirmed last June, and the third was confirmed last week.
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