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.

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 sliced raw beef liver served 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.

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 sliced raw beef liver (front) served 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.

High court orders gov't to redress radish sprout growers

High court orders gov't to redress radish sprout growers

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Fueki (R), representing the Japan kaiware (radish sprouts) association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 21 after the Tokyo High Court ordered the state to payy some 16.9 million yen in compensation to the growers of white radish sprouts for branding the vegetable as a likely cause of a fatal outbreak of food poisoning caused by the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria in 1996.

5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

NARA, Japan - Health center officials prepare for a stool test at a nursery in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, on August 1 in the wake of the death of a 5-year-old boy in this season's first outbreak of the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria.

5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

NARA, Japan - Health center officials prepare for a stool test at a nursery in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, on August 1 in the wake of the death of a 5-year-old boy in this season's first outbreak of the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria.

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. (Kyodo)

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 sliced raw beef liver served 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. (Kyodo)

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 sliced raw beef liver (front) served 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. (Kyodo)

High court orders gov't to redress radish sprout growers

High court orders gov't to redress radish sprout growers

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Fueki (R), representing the Japan kaiware (radish sprouts) association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 21 after the Tokyo High Court ordered the state to payy some 16.9 million yen in compensation to the growers of white radish sprouts for branding the vegetable as a likely cause of a fatal outbreak of food poisoning caused by the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria in 1996. (Kyodo)