The first case of BSE in Japan

Lead: Hashimoto news a Japanese local government spokesman said on Monday that a cow infected with mad cow disease was reported in Chiba County, near Tokyo, Japan, the first such case ever found in Japan Japan's Ministry of Agriculture said that although the first case of mad cow disease was found in Japan today, there will be no large-scale outbreak of mad cow disease, and the public can eat Japanese beef and milk at ease Meanwhile, Japan's Ministry of health has decided to ban the sale of beef from the affected farms, but the ban has not been implemented nationwide Japanese officials said they believed the outbreak of BSE and Creutzfeldt Jakob disease would not occur on a large scale, and eating Japanese beef and dairy products remained safe Takemi Nagamura, a director of the animal husbandry department of the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said at a press conference on Monday night that the Ministry suspected that imports of meat and bone meal from the European Union caused the spread of mad cow disease.