Restaurants to be banned from serving raw beef liver

Restaurants to be banned from serving raw beef liver

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 30, 2012, shows blocks of raw beef liver at a restaurant in Tokyo's Shimbashi district. A health ministry panel compiled plans the same day to legally ban restaurants from serving raw beef liver, following the discovery that it contains the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria. Raw liver is considered a delicacy in Japan.

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