"Food Safety Citizens' Watch" that composed of consumers and civic groups demanded on November 26 "Protest against the government" and "Stopping of the study committee work concerning condition, cows aged months judgment, to import it at once" from the Food Safety Commission for the government's not waiting for a scientific judgment of the Cabinet Office Food Safety Commission and having decided the directionality of the lifting of the ban on import on beef from the United States.
In addition, the consumer group puts the additional post of committee of the risk evaluation of BSE and the role of the policy decision in question.