Open letter: Our demands regarding mad cow disease in Brazil To: Agriculture Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi From: Food Safety Citizens’ Watch January 9, 2013 Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) announced on December 8, 2012 on its homepage that beef from Brazil was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and that import of beef [...]

Withdraw Plans to Reexamine Japan’s Strict Measures against Mad Cow Disease December 9, 2011 Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) decided on December 9, 2011 to consider reexamining the legal measures against Mad Cow Disease and to ask the BSE committee of the Food Safety Commission to deal with the issue by the [...]

We demand that BSE inspection should be continued in 2008 (pdf) CUJ demands that 100% BSE inspection should be continued in 2008. Read the letter to Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro, asking Tokyo to follow Yamagata, Miyazaki and Kyoto Prefecture, and support blanket testing of all cattle in Japan. We demand that 100% BSE inspection should [...]

CUJ OIE Comments (PDF) On May 20, 2007, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) classified the United States as a “Controlled Risk” country, together with Canada, Switzerland, Taiwan, Chile and Brazil. This rating was decided at the OIE general meeting based on each country’s BSE status. As a result of this OIE rating, exports [...]

20 February, 2007 To Mr. Matsuoka Toshikatsu, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries To Mr. Yanagisawa Hakuo, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Statement of opposition to the violations against the Japan-U.S. agreement on the import of American beef (age limit rules) and a demand to stop all imports On February 16, 2007 Japan’s Ministry [...]