PLUNGING beef sales. Restaurants and farmers facing bankruptcy. Government
bungling and inaction. For those who missed it first time round, an outbreak of
BSE in Japan is beginning to look like a repeat performance of Britain’s famous
nightmare.
Since Japan’s first case was reported last month, no others have surfaced.
But experts think the crisis is far from over. At least 300 tonnes of
potentially contaminated meat and bonemeal (MBM) was imported from Britain
before the government banned this in 1996.
Earlier this year the European Commission named Japan as a high-risk country
in a report about the worldwide potential…
