Japan may ease BSE restrictions

Published on September 6, 2012; Published on September 6, 2012
Jim Romahn

A Japanese panel is recommending that the government ease restrictions on Canadian beef, lifting the age limit from 20 to 30 months.

Topics :: Japan , Alberta

The age limit is designed to ensure that the beef will not come from cattle infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.

If the government decides to accept the panel recommendation, it will hold public hearings and it would be late winter or early spring before it eases the restrictions on Canadian beef.

The restrictions on Canadian beef have been in place since a cow in Alberta died of BSE in May 2003.

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