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Japanese Agriculture Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Tuesday that reducing
the number of U.S. cattle tested for bovine spongiform encephalopathy
won't be warmly received in Japan.
Late last week, USDA said it was considering scaling back
on the number of cattle tested for BSE by almost 90 percent
after data collected from its surveillance program indicated
that only four to seven U.S. cattle likely carried the disease.
After meeting with Nakagawa in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday,
Johanns reiterated that the likelihood of BSE occurrence
in the U.S. herd is almost nonexistent.
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