Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

Tokyo wholesale market launches meat safety campaign

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd a ''meat fair'' which Tokyo's central wholesale market launched in Minato Ward on Oct. 19 to promote its campaign to persuade consumers about the safety of beef and pork. Japan's food industry was hammered by the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease, in the country in September 2001.

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