By JCPRESS
A consumer group "Food Safety Citizens' Watch" that composed of the consumer group and the civic group more than 600 members submitted the request with "It is necessary to refuse the re-opening of the import of beef from the United States that did not prove safety" to Prime Minister Koizumi on March 18.
Food Safety Citizens' Watch that observed the administration the enterprise of foods for the safety pointed out, "There are a lot of opinions that it was in fact impossible to distinguish cow's date of birth, or months old, by the method that had been presented by U.S. Government also in the United States" with the request.
This group is introducing what what the Dr. Stanley B Prusiner of the professor of Department of Medicine at University of California described for reasonable grounds to exist about the blanket-test all cattle for mad cow disease.
Japan has been prohibiting the import of beef from the United States since 2003 the first time detection of an infected cow with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States.