Not Again...
Since december 2003, when mad cow deases were reported in US, Japan had barred beef imports from the United States. In the long run, Japan finally approved the imports of beef with an agreement that beer aged under 20 months and without spinal column and tissue, which are alledgedly cause of mad cow deases, are admitted. Untill reaching to this agreement, US had also forbidden Japan's beef import along with Japanese negation for US beef, However a shipment that arrived in a Japanese port recently boarded meats with spinal column. Japanese government immediately banned the import for US beef. The time for disputing a safety of US beef has come again. US beef with benchmark assuring .
Has the United States had a strict inspection on check-up system for domestic beef? The answer is no on account of reasons mentioned below.
First of all it cannot be helped to say that Japan is treated frivolously by the US, who has a nerve to send the meats which were supposedly banned. Only six weeks have been passed since Japan agreed to resuming of the import. Above all the beef with spinal column had a benchmark which assures the beef was carefully inspected before exporting.
Secondly there have been critics to US attitude for beef checking system. For instance Food Safety Commission which is responsible for the US beer issue concluded only beef of 20 months aged and without dangerous parts can only be accepted. It has been two years till the commission came to this conclusion. Their continuous suggestions toward an accuracy of US beer checking system were often reported. US beef check-up system is, comparted with Japanese safety inspections for domestic beef, porous. Only 1 cow positive to Bovine Spongeform Encephalopathy was found out of 380,000 cows going through inspection in the United States, while 20 out of all 4 million Japan-domestic cows also positive to BSE were found since october of 2001. The total number of American beef cows is approximately 33 million in 2004 according to the National Agricultual Statistics Service.
As a matter of fact Japan was previously the biggest consumer of US beef in the world. Japanese total expense for US beef in 2003 was $1.4 billion. The whole yield the US accrued in 2003 was $3.9 billion. The figure implies how essential Japan is for US beef exporting. Naturally Japan has been urged to resume US beef imports, while there were a scad of opinions for questioning a brittleness of the US inspection.
Beef in Japanese food culture of nowadays is essential. Beef bowl which is beef-on-rice also plays a important role in Japanese everyday diets. Yet the problem is whether the beef are safe for eating. Even if US beef were cheap and tasty, it would not mesmerize or even reach to one's tongue unless paying much attention on the safety. Along with Japan's ban for US beef, the US also forbade imports for Japanese beef as-a-matter-of-factly, regardless the Japan's severe inspection for cows. This is presumably unknown by people in Japan; it is worth being known.
For those reasons and facts, consumer's credential to US beef would remain in the abyss. Japan would also stay hardline till the US acheives a betterment of inspection system. What factors are inviting this unwelcome result? It is, in my opinion, haughtiness coming from a pround as the biggest exporter and as a dominant protagonist of the world.
Has the United States had a strict inspection on check-up system for domestic beef? The answer is no on account of reasons mentioned below.
First of all it cannot be helped to say that Japan is treated frivolously by the US, who has a nerve to send the meats which were supposedly banned. Only six weeks have been passed since Japan agreed to resuming of the import. Above all the beef with spinal column had a benchmark which assures the beef was carefully inspected before exporting.
Secondly there have been critics to US attitude for beef checking system. For instance Food Safety Commission which is responsible for the US beer issue concluded only beef of 20 months aged and without dangerous parts can only be accepted. It has been two years till the commission came to this conclusion. Their continuous suggestions toward an accuracy of US beer checking system were often reported. US beef check-up system is, comparted with Japanese safety inspections for domestic beef, porous. Only 1 cow positive to Bovine Spongeform Encephalopathy was found out of 380,000 cows going through inspection in the United States, while 20 out of all 4 million Japan-domestic cows also positive to BSE were found since october of 2001. The total number of American beef cows is approximately 33 million in 2004 according to the National Agricultual Statistics Service.
As a matter of fact Japan was previously the biggest consumer of US beef in the world. Japanese total expense for US beef in 2003 was $1.4 billion. The whole yield the US accrued in 2003 was $3.9 billion. The figure implies how essential Japan is for US beef exporting. Naturally Japan has been urged to resume US beef imports, while there were a scad of opinions for questioning a brittleness of the US inspection.
Beef in Japanese food culture of nowadays is essential. Beef bowl which is beef-on-rice also plays a important role in Japanese everyday diets. Yet the problem is whether the beef are safe for eating. Even if US beef were cheap and tasty, it would not mesmerize or even reach to one's tongue unless paying much attention on the safety. Along with Japan's ban for US beef, the US also forbade imports for Japanese beef as-a-matter-of-factly, regardless the Japan's severe inspection for cows. This is presumably unknown by people in Japan; it is worth being known.
For those reasons and facts, consumer's credential to US beef would remain in the abyss. Japan would also stay hardline till the US acheives a betterment of inspection system. What factors are inviting this unwelcome result? It is, in my opinion, haughtiness coming from a pround as the biggest exporter and as a dominant protagonist of the world.
