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Article: Consumers, beef producers in United States worry about mad cow disease
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- AP Worldstream
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- December 24, 2003
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JONATHAN D. SALANT, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-24-2003
Dateline: WASHINGTON
From consumers to beef producers, Americans braced for the fallout from the apparent discovery of mad cow disease in the United States even as federal officials insisted the food supply was safe.
The impact was evident almost immediately: Several nations, including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, halted U.S. beef imports just hours after the Agriculture Department announced Tuesday that a cow at a farm in Washington state had tested positive for the brain-wasting disease. Japan is the largest overseas market for U.S. beef.
Agriculture Department officials and cattle industry executives tried to allay ...
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