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British cows, Italian feed seen as cause of mad cow disease in Japan
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
28 September 2003
TOKYO - A Japanese farm ministry panel has concluded it is highly possible that mad cow disease in Japan stemmed from cows imported from Britain in the 1980s and Italian-made animal feed, a report said on Sunday.
The chief suspects fingered by the panel are 14 cows imported from Britain in 1982 and 1987 as well as meat and bone meal (MBM) imported from Italy in 1990 or earlier, the mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said.
Some of the British cows are believed to have been infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and then used to make MBM in Japan, spreading the abnormal protein that causes the disease, it said.
Some Italian MBM is also suspected of having been contaminated due to insufficient heating in manufacturing procedures, it said.
The taskforce is expected to present a final report to the ministry on Monday although it failed to decisively pinpoint the cause of BSE and infection routes, the paper said.
Japan is the only Asian nation to confirm the presence of the brain-wasting disease and has found seven mad cow cases since September 2001.
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