Envoy Baker's wife urges USDA to allow BSE tests by meatpackers

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker (in file photo), the wife of Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, has sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) asking it to reconsider its refusal to allow meatpackers to test all slaughtered cattle for mad cow disease, a copy of the letter obtained April 15 showed.

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