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Article: U.S. delegation arrives in South Korea to discuss mad cow outbreak in United States
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- December 30, 2003
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JAE-SUK YOO, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-30-2003
Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea
U.S. agriculture officials arrived Tuesday in South Korea _ the second-largest export market for American beef _ to discuss the emergence of the brain-wasting mad cow disease in the United States.
South Korea is one of more than 30 countries that have banned the import of U.S. beef and other cow parts since the United States announced last week that a Holstein cow in Washington state tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.
Before coming to Seoul, the U.S.delegation had asked Japan to discuss lifting of the ban on U.S. beef in a meeting in Tokyo but Japan rejected the request, a ...