US consumer watchdog calls for strengthening beef test - (Korea Times)
June 12, 2008 – 12:15 amFollowing a record number of people attending anti-U.S. beef import rallies Tuesday, a U.S. consumer group called for allowing private meatpacking companies there to test slaughtered cows for mad cow disease.
The New York-based non-profit consumer watchdog Consumers Union said doing so would help relieve Koreans’ worries about the safety of American beef.
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at the union, said the Koreans’ concern about American beef would probably “decline or disappear’ if the U.S. companies were given the right to test for the disease.
Hansen made the remarks in a statement issued by the consumer group aimed at urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to drop opposition to Kansas-based meatpacking company, Creekstone Farms’ action to test all its cattle for mad cow disease.
The company, which suffered lost sales from exports to Korea and Japan, has taken legal action in the case.
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