date:Jan 30, 2013
ed theban in 2003, after mad cow disease was found in a single cow inWashington State. Humans are thought to catch the disease's fatalhuman variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, by eating meat,including the brain and spinal cord, from contaminated carcasses.
Japan eased the ban in 2006 but only for meat from cattle 20months or younger. Japanese officials argued that the incidenceof the disease was higher in older animals.
Even with this week's further relaxation, however, beef industryexperts s