(1)Panel adopts final report on mad cow handling

TOKYO, Japan - A special panel investigating the government's handling of mad cow disease is in session April 2 to adopt a final report on the first outbreak of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), in Japan in 2001. 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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