Sunday, October 11, 2009

Banned Bits of Beef

Japan recently suspended beef imports from a Tysons meatpacking plant in Lexington, Nebraska for including beef parts banned under a trade agreement between Japan and the U.S. The shipment included parts of spinal bones. Spinal bones contain tissue implicated in the transmission of mad cow disease.

Tyson apologized, saying the inclusion of the spinal parts had been made by mistake and was the result of a mix-up. They said that those parts were not supposed to be shipped to Japan. So, where were those parts supposed to be shipped?

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