(3)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

(3)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - Masao Takahashi, chairman of a special panel on mad cow disease, speaks at a news conference after submitting a report to the government April 2. The report blasted the farm ministry for its failure to ban meat and bone meal (MBM) feed in the mid-1990s.

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