Panel OKs draft report recommending end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of a specialists panel of the government's Food Safety Commission, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 31 after his panel adopted a draft report recommending an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports. Beef and beef offal from U.S. and Canadian cattle aged up to 20 months are at ''very low'' risk if materials that could transmit mad cow disease are properly removed, the draft report said. (Kyodo)

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